SANTA     CRUZ 


Gift  of 
MARION    R.    WALKER 

in  memory  of  his  grandfather 
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M.C.  1892-94  i 


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MEMORIAL  ADDRESSES 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER 


A   REPRESENTATIVE   FROM    PENNSYLVANIA, 


DELIVERED    IN   THE 


HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  AND  IN  THE  SENATE, 


Fifty-third  Congress,  Second  Session. 


PUBLISHED    BY    ORDER   OF    CONGRESS. 


WASHINGTON : 

GOVERNMENT   PRINTING   OFFICE. 
I895. 


Resolved  by  the  House  of  Representatives  (the  Senate  concurring),  That  there 
be  printed  of  the  eulogies  delivered  iu  Congress  upon  the  Hon.  WILLIAM 
LILLY,  late  a  Representative  from  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  eight  thou- 
sand copies;  of  which  number  two  thousand  copies  shall  be  delivered  to 
the  Senators  and  Representatives  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  which 
shall  include  fifty  copies  to  be  bound  in  full  morocco,  to  be  delivered  to 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  and  of  the  remaining,  two  thousand  shall  be 
for  the  use  of  the  Senate  and  four  thousand  for  the  use  of  the  House  of 
Representatives;  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  is  directed  to  have 
engraved  and  printed  a  portrait  of  the  said  WILLIAM  LILLY  to  accompany 
the  said  eulogies. 

Agreed  to  in  the  House  of  Representatives  March  5,  1894. 

Agreed  to  in  the  Senate  March  20,  1894. 


CONTENTS 


E    1 
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Announcement  of  death :  Page. 

In  the  House 5 

In  the  Senate 43 

Address  of  Mr.  Bynum 18 

Mr.  Call 54 

Mr.  Cameron 45 

Mr.  Chandler '. 56 

Mr.  Hicks ' 24 

Mr.  McDowell 8 

Mr.  Mutchler 38 

Mr.  Palmer 50 

Mr.  Scran  ton 34 

Mr.  Stone,  Chas.  W 20 

Mr.  Wanger 32 

Mr.  Woomer 12 

Mr.  Wright 29 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES. 


ANNOUNCEMENT    OF    DEATH. 

DECEMBER  21, 1893. 

Mr.  BINGHAM,  of  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Speaker,  Pennsylvania 
and  this  House  are  confronted  to-day  with  a  twofold  grief  and 
loss.  Hon.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  a  Bepresentative  at  large  from 
the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  died  at  his  home  at  Mauch  Chunk 
on  the  1st  day  of  the  present  month.  Elected  to  this  Con- 
gress— his  first  term  as  a  representative  of  five  millions  of 
people — his  career  of  usefulness  in  this  House  had  just  opened. 
Honored  with  public  trust  and  distinguished  station  which 
measured  years  of  marked  probity  and  uprightness,  familiar 
with  legislative  procedure,  and  understanding  the  wants  of 
his  great  people,  Pennsylvania  looked  confidently  to  his  labors 
and  their  beneficent  results,  knowing  he  would  be  influenced 
only  by  the  highest  standards  and  for  the  good  of  all.  His 
health  was  not  robust  or  reliable  when  he  entered  upon  his 
duties  at  the  extraordinary  session  just  closed.  Gradually  he 
grew  weaker  and  weaker,  until  the  final  summons  called  him 
to  his  future  home. 

Sitting  together  in  the  house  of  representatives  of  the  State 
of  Pennsylvania  during  the  years  1850  and  1851,  we  find 
Charles  O'Neill  and  WILLIAM  LILLY  earnestly  laboring  in 
their  young  manhood  for  the  best  interests  of  their  State. 
Born  in  the  same  year,  1821,  we  mourn  their  loss  to-day.  I 
offer  the  resolutions  which  I  send  to  the  desk. 

5 


6  Announcement  of  Death. 

The  resolutions  were  read,  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  sincere  regret  the  announce- 
ment of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  late  a  Representative  of  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives  be  directed 
to  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  Senate,  and  send  a  duly  attested 
copy  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  nine  members  of  the  House,  with  such 
members  of  the  Senate  as  may  be  joined,  be  appointed  to  attend  the 
funeral  at  Mauch  Chunk,  Pa. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased, 
the  House  do  now  adjourn. 

The  resolutions  were  adopted. 

The  Speaker  appointed  as  the  committee  on  the  part  of 
the  House  Mr.  McDowell,  Mr.  Page,  Mr.  Mutchler,  Mr.  North- 
way,  Mr.  Robinson  of  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Curtis  of  Kansas, 
Mr.  Whiting,  Mr.  Hicks,  Mr.  Tate. 

The  House  then  pursuant  to  the  last  resolution  (at  three 
o'clock  p.  m.)  adjourned. 


EULOGIES. 

FEBRUARY  17,  1894. 

The  SPEAKER  pro  tempore  (Mr.  Bailey).  The  hour  of  two 
o'clock  having  arrived,  the  Clerk  will  report  the  special  order. 
The  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  Saturday,  February  17,  1894,  beginning  at  two  o'clock 
p.  m.,  be  set  apart  for  paying  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Hon.  WILLIAM 
LILLY,  late  a  member  of  the  House  of  Eepresentatives  from  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  MCDOWELL.  Mr.  Speaker,  I  offer  the  resolutions  which 
I  send  to  the  Clerk's  desk. 
The  resolutions  were  read,  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  profound  sorrow  the  announce- 
ment of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  late  a  Representative  from 
the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  House  be  now  suspended,  in  order 
that  tribute  be  paid  to  his  memory. 

Resolved,  That,  as  an  additional  mark  of  respect,  the  House,  at  the  con- 
'  elusion  of  these  ceremonies,  do  adjourn. 

The  SPEAKER  pro  teinpore.  The  question  is  on  the  adoption 
of  the  resolutions. 

7 


8      Address  of  Mr.  McDowell,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  MCDOWELL,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  Full  of  years  and  full  of  honors,  on  the  1st 
day  of  December,  1893,  at  his  home  in  Mauch  Chunk,  Gen. 
WILLIAM  LILLY,  a  member  of  this  House,  passed  to  his 
eternal  rest. 

Long  he  had  lived  and  well — beyond  the  threescore  years 
and  ten  allotted  to  man — and  now  he  is  laid  to  rest  amidst 
the  scenes  of  his  labors  and  achievements.  The  tears  of 
the  poor  and  lowly  that  fell  upon  the  casket  that  held  all 
that  was  earthly  of  him  who  had  been  their  constant  friend 
were  eloquent  beyond  any  words  we  may  utter  here  to-day. 
They  were  tears  whose  spring  was  in  the  hearts  of  those 
who  wept. 

For  his  charities  and  benevolences  were  as  boundless  as  his 
heart  was  tender  and  his  impulses  sympathetic  and  humane, 
and  they  were  never  circumscribed  within  the  limits  of 
church,  party,  or  nationality.  He  who  needed  his  help  he 
regarded  as  a  brother,  and  to  him  he  played  a  brother's 
part.  Nor  were  his  good  works  confined  to  those  within 
the  circle  of  his  daily  acquaintances,  wide  as  a  long  and 
active  life  had  extended  its  bounds.  There  was  no  disaster 
by  land  or  sea  but  those  who  felt  its  weight  received  a 
message  of  love  and  help  from  WILLIAM  LILLY.  He  so 
lived  that  his  name  and  deeds  will  not  be  forgotten  while 
gratitude  has  a  home  in  the  human  heart. 

The  life  of  General  LILLY  was  typically  American — typical 
in  its  beginnings,  its  labors,  and  its  achievements.  It 
grandly  exemplifies  the  possibilities  that  lie  before  every 
American  citizen,  no  matter  how  humble  his  early  condition, 
if  lie  enters  the  field  with  honest  heart  and  willing  h;md  and 
follows  no  guide  save  rectitude  and  honor.  These  principles 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly,  9 

were  the  beacon  lights  that  directed  his  course  and  won  for 
him  in  every  relation  of  life  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his 
fellows. 

His  career  was  as  active  as  it  was  useful,  yet  many-sided 
and  inauy-ideaed ;  he  never  permitted  any  one  pursuit  to  ab- 
sorb his  attention  and  his  energies,  or  forgot  in  the  prosecu- 
tion of  his  private  business  aims  the  duties  devolving  upon 
him  as  a  citizen  and  a  patriot.  His  natural  powers  of  mind 
and  his  sound  judgment,  matured  and  ripened  by  the  experi- 
ence gained  in  the  practical  affairs  of  a  business  career,  emi- 
nently fitted  him  for  the  discharge  of  the  public  duties  that  his 
people  placed  upon  him,  and  the  business  man  who  originated 
and  helped  to  conduct  many  of  the  coal-mining  corporations 
of  Schuylkill,  Luzerne,  and  Carbon  counties,  giving  to  them, 
as  well  as  to  all  home  enterprises,  his  time,  efforts,  money, 
and  advice,  was  no  less  active,  prudent,  and  wise  as  a  servant 
of  the  whole  people. 

A  member  of  the  law-making  power  of  Pennsylvania,  he  left 
the  impress  of  a  strong  mind  upon  the  statute  books  of  the 
State,  while  in  the  constitutional  convention  of  1873  he  as- 
sisted in  framing  an  organic  law  that  guarantees  to  every 
citizen,  be  he  rich  or  poor,  equal  and  exact  justice.  Although 
his  term  of  service  in  this  House  was  brought  to  an  untimely 
end  in  almost  its  very  beginning,  those  of  his  colleagues  who 
were  thrown  into  intimate  relations  with  him  can  well  testify 
to  the  constant  and  careful  attention,  the  intelligent  interest, 
and  sound  judgment  which  he  displayed  upon  every  public 
question. 

Gen.  WILLIAM  LILLY  was  born  June  3,  1821,  at  Penn  Yan, 
Yates  County,  N.  Y.  His  ancestors  fought  for  freedom  in  the 
Eevolutiouary  war,  and  his  father  was  a  man  prominent  in 
business  and  public  affairs.  Removing  to  Pennsylvania  be- 
fore he  had  attained  the  years  of  manhood,  he  became  an 


10     Address  of  Mr.  McDowell,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

employee  of  one  of  the  early  railroads  of  the  State  used  for 
the  transportation  of  anthracite  coal,  both  industries  being 
then  in  their  infancy.  His  first  promotion  was  to  the  position 
of  conductor,  and  thence  his  energy  and  faithfulness  to  duty 
advanced  him  to  a  place  in  the  management  of  the  road. 
His  business  sagacity  convinced  him  of  the  possibilities  of 
the  coal-mining  industry,  and  he  was  one  of  those  who  first 
ventured  into  more  extensive  operations.  His  enterprises 
prospered  and  increased  with  time,  until  at  his  death  he  was 
not  only  interested  in  the  mining  business,  but  in  a  number  of 
thriving  industries,  a  large  stockholder  in  some  of  the  leading 
railroads  of  his  State,  and  a  director  of  three  national  banks. 

But,  as  has  been  said,  the  cares  of  business  never  so  en- 
grossed his  time  and  attention  as  to  i>reclude  his  taking  part 
„  in  the  public  affairs  of  his  section  and  his  State.  When  a 
young  man,  he  became  interested  in  the  militia  soldiery  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  his  activity  and  popularity  may  be  well 
estimated  from  the  fact  that  he  had  become  a  colonel  before 
he  was  of  age,  and  afterwards  was  the  youngest  brigadier- 
general  that  ever  wore  a  star  in  that  service.  In  the  arena  of' 
politics  he  was  equally  successful.  Entering  the  house  of 
representatives  of  Pennsylvania  before  he  had  reached  his 
thirtieth  year,  so  prominent  was  the  part  he  took  in  his  first 
session  that  at  the  beginning  of  the  second  he  was  made  a 
candidate  for  speaker  and  only  fell  a  few  votes  short  of  his 
successful  competitor,  one  of  the  most  able  leaders  in  the 
house. 

Always  a  careful  student  of  constitutions  and  of  laws,  his 
practical  experience  and  observation  satisfied  him  that  the 
fundamental  law  of  Pennsylvania  needed  careful  revision. 
He  may  truthfully  be  said  to  have  been  the  pioneer  of  the 
movement  that  led  to  such  revision,  as  the  adoption  of  his 
resolution,  offered  in  the  State  convention  of  the  Republican 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  1 1 

party  in  1869,  committed  that  organization  in  its  favor,  and 
at  a  subsequent  election  the  people  indorsed  that  action  at 
the  polls.  Elected  a  delegate  at  large  to  the  convention  that 
followed,  he  was  one  of  the  most  influential  members,  and 
there  is  scarcely  a  provision  of  the  present  constitution  of 
Pennsylvania  that  does  not  bear  the  impress  of  his  wisdom 
and  statesmanship.  In  1892  his  party  placed  him  again  upon 
its  State  ticket  as  one  of  the  candidates  for  Congressman  at 
large,  and  this  choice  was  ratified  by  the  people  at  the  polls 
by  a  majority  of  about  seventy  thousand  votes. 

In  his  earlier  political  career,  General  LILLY  acted  with  the 
Democratic  party,  and  it  was  as  a  representative  of  that 
organization  that  he  served  in  the  legislature  of  his  State. 
But  early  in  the  struggle  for  the  Union,  a  careful  considera- 
tion of  the  great  principles  at  issue,  and  the  position  of  the 
two  political  parties  thereon,  led  him  to  the  honest,  earnest 
conviction  that  his  place  was  in  the  Republican  ranks.  With 
him  to  think  and  believe  was  to  act,  and,  severing  his  rela- 
tions with  the  Democratic  party,  he  became  a  Eepublican, 
and  soon  was  even  more  prominent  in  its  counsels  than  he 
had  been  in  those  of  his  former  political  associates. 

So  great  was  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  the  Repub- 
lican party  that,  within  six  years  after  he  cast  his  political 
lot  with  it,  he  was  second  on  the  list  of  candidates  on  the  last 
ballot  in  its  State  convention  for  the  gubernatorial  nomina- 
tion, and  he  had  sat  as  delegate  in  every  important  State  con- 
vention since  1863,  and  was  a  delegate  or  alternate  to  every 
Republican  national  convention  held  in  the  last  twenty-five 
years.  With  a  record  such  as  this,  it  needs  not  to  be  said 
that  he  possessed  those  qualities  which  alone  make  such  a 
career  possible.  No  man  can,  for  fifty  years,  successfully 
deceive  not  only  his  immediate  neighbors  and  associates, 
but  two  great  parties  and  the  people  of  a  great  common- 
wealth. 


12     Address  of  Mr.  Woomer,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

To  live  the  life  and  win  the  honors  that  WILLIAM  LILLY 
lived  and  won  there  must  have  been  within  him  those  sterling 
qualities  that  make  the  true  man.  And  they  were  his  indeed. 
Manly,  faithful,  honest,  and  upright,  he  was  unceasing  and 
unswerving  in  his  devotion  to  right,  and  willing  and  ready  to 
stand  up  for  it,  even  though  he  stood  alone.  A  poor  boy 
when  he  began  his  career,  his  honest  labor  and  legitimate 
enterprise  accumulated  a  vast  fortune,  not  one  dollar  of 
which  made  others  poorer.  Simple  in  his  tastes  and  unostenta- 
tious in  his  manners,  wealth  made  no  change  in  Ms  daily 
walk  and  conversation,  and  the  friends  of  his  youth  were  the 
friends  of  his  old  age. 

Intrusted  with  responsible  public  duties,  he  discharged 
them  faithfully,  with  credit  to  himself  and  acceptability  to 
his  people.  Plain,  unaffected,  earnest,  and  sincere,  those  who 
knew  him  best  loved  him  most.  All  along  his  pathway,  from 
the  cradle  to  the  grave,  good  deeds  were  strewn,  and  now 
that  he  has  passed  from  earth  to — 

The  undiscovered  country,  from  whose  bourn 
No  traveler  returns — 

he  has  left  to  the  world  the  record  of  an  unsullied  life  and 
the  u  memory  of  the  just." 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  WOOMER,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  The  term  of  service  of  Gen.  WILLIAM  S. 
LILLY  in  this  House  was  so  short,  and,  short  as  it  was,  so 
interrupted  by  absences  caused  by  his  ill  health,  as  to  give  him 
but  few  opportunities  to  form  the  acquaintance  of  such  of  his 
fellow-members  to  whom  he  was  not  already  known  before  he 
came  here.  The  privilege  therefore  of  testifying  to  his  worth 
devolves  peculiarly  upon  those  of  us  who  knew  him  before  his 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  13 

entrance  into  Congress,  or  who  were  thrown  by  circumstances 
into  contact  with  him  during  his  short  stay  here. 

As  one  who  had  the  honor  of  his  acquaintance  before  his 
election  to  this  body,  and  who  lived  beneath  the  same  roof, 
and  I  may  say  on  terms  of  friendship  with  him  while  at 
Washington,  I  feel  that  it  would  neither  be  fitting  nor  just 
to  let  this  day  pass  without  paying  my  poor  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  the  dead,  and  attempting  to  say  something  of  the 
useful  and  instructive  life  that  has  now  closed. 

Although  the  Congressional  experience  of  our  deceased 
friend  was  very  brief,  he  had  passed  the  scriptural  limit  of 
life  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Born  in  1821,  General  LILLY 
removed  at  an  early  age  from  his  native  State  of  New  York 
to  the  Lehigh  Valley,  the  region  he  afterwards  loved  so  well 
and  aided  so  materially  to  develop. 

Although  the  great  anthracite- coal  industry,  upon  which 
the  prosperity  of  that  valley  rests,  was,  at  the  time  of  General 
LILLY'S  settlement  there,  in  1836,  confined  to  what  we  should 
now  call  inconsiderable  proportions,  its  pioneers  were  already 
using  every  effort  to  effect  an  entrance  in  the  large  cities  of 
the  East  for  their  products  ten  years  before  they  had  built  at 
Mauch  Chunk  the  second  railway  in  the  United  States  to  haul 
their  coal  from  the  breakers  of  the  mines  to  market,  and  at 
this  early  day  a  steam  railway  constructed  for  the  same  pur- 
poses had  just  begun  to  haul  the  coal  to  water  transportation, 
whence  it  was  shipped  to  the  New  York  and  Philadelphia 
markets. 

For  a  time  General  LILLY  occupied  various  positions  upon 
this  railway,  and  so  began  that  intimate  connection  with  the 
vast  mining  and  transportation  interests  of  eastern  Pennsyl- 
vania, which  he  maintained  until  his  death.  From  his  first 
pursuit  of  railroading  he  naturally  turned  to  the  business  of 
mining  the  coal  that  filled  the  hills  over  which  he  daily 


14     Address  of  Mr.  Woomer,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

traveled,  at  first  as  a  trusted  employee  of  the  great  firm  of 
Ario  Pardee  &  Co.,  and  soon  as  an  independent  operator  he 
took  a  leading  part  in  the  development  of  the  beautiful  valley 
he  had  adopted  as  his  home. 

For  more  than  fifty  years  he  devoted  his  energies  to  the 
unlocking  of  the  tremendous,  mineral  resources  of  his  section 
and  became  one  of  the  foremost  of  those  captains  of  industiy 
under  whose  wise  guidance  the  mining  camps  and  country 
villages  of  half  a  century  ago  have  grown  into  manufac- 
turing cities  that  now  stretch  in  an  unbroken  chain  to  the 
Wyoming,  the  Lehigh,  the  Lebanon,  and  the  Cumberland 
valleys,  from  one  end  to  another  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Although  the  important  enterprises  in  which  General  LILLY 
was  engaged  demanded  through  his  long  and  busy  life  his 
closest  attention,  he  was  from  his  early  manhood  a  deep  student 
of  social  and  political  problems,  and  amid  the  cares  of  busi- 
ness never  forgot  to  respond  to  his  duties  as  a  citizen.  Thus  it 
happened  that  although  he  never  sought  office,  and  although 
his  personal  inclination  rendered  him  averse  to  accepting 
it,  he  was  frequently  called  by  his  fellow-citizens  to  positions 
of  honor  and  trust. 

Before  he  had  arrived  at  the  age  of  thirty  years,  and  while 
his  political  views  were  still  in  accordance  with  those  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lived,  he  was  elected  to  the  State  leg- 
islature, and  upon  his  reelection  was  a  prominent  candidate 
for  the  speakership  of  the  house.  The  pressing  demands  of 
business  induced  him  to  decline  a  second  reelection,  which  his 
constituents  would  gladly  have  given  him.  But  while  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legislature  his  record  was  an  enviable  one.  lie 
served  on  several  important  committees,  and  attained  a  prom- 
inence that  seldom  falls  to  the  lot  of  a  man  as  young  as  he 
was  at  that  time. 

When  the  crisis  of  1801  approached,  General  LILLY  brought 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  15 

to  the  consideration  of  the  issues  involved  the  ripe  study  of 
years,  and  he  followed  the  progress  of  events  with  anxious 
feelings.  After  making  a  number  of  visits  to  this  city  to 
investigate  the  real  nature  of  the  struggle  upon  the  spot,  he 
shortly  after  the  beginning  of  the  war  found  himself  unable  to 
act  any  longer  with  his  former  political  associates,  and  joined 
the  Eepublican  party.  This  was  a  step  that  forever  alienated 
him  from  the  political  sympathy  of  his  section  of  the  State; 
but  to  a  man  of  his  standard  of  right  and  wrong  this  was  a 
small  sacrifice  to  make  to  principle. 

The  Republican  party  quickly  recognized  a  leader  in  their 
new  recruit,  and  from  the  date  of  his  affiliation  with  it  fre- 
quently turned  to  him  for  assistance  and  advice.  For  thirty 
years  he  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  State  and  national  con- 
ventions of  his  party,  and  when,  in  18G8,  his  name  was  pre- 
sented by  his  friends  for  the  gubernatorial  nomination,  he 
received  the  next  to  the  highest  vote  on  the  deciding  ballot. 
Undoubtedly,  if  General  LILLY  had  not  been  handicapped  by 
his  strongly  Democratic  local  environment,  the  highest  honors 
of  the  State  would  long  since  have  been  conferred  upon  him. 

General  LILLY  was  one  of  the  first  and  foremost  men  in 
Pennsylvania  to  urge  the  calling  of  the  constitutional  conven- 
tion of  1873.  He  was  a  member  of  that  body  as  a  delegate  at 
large,  and  made  an  enviable  record  in  its  deliberations.  It  is 
said  that  he  never  missed  a  roll  call  during  the  long  sessions 
of  the  convention,  and  he  frequently  addressed  it  in  support 
of  the  principles  which  he  wished  to  incorporate  in  the  or- 
ganic law  of  the  State.  The  ability  and  conscientiousness 
with  which  he  performed  this  important  work  and  the  high 
position  he  attained  among  his  many  colleagues  are  indica- 
tions of  what  the  record  of  General  LILLY  in  the  national 
legislation  would  have  been  had  not  his  career  here  been  cut 
so  short.  His  nomination  for  Congressman  at  large  in  1892 


16     Address  of  Mr.  Woomer,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

was  a  most  popular  one,  for  the  many  services  he  had  done 
his  party  had  raised  him  up  hosts  of  friends  in  every  quarter 
of  the  State. 

When  Congress  assembled  last  August  General  LILLY'S 
friends  already  feared  that  his  career  in  these  Halls  would 
not  be  long;  his  visit  to  the  Capitol  to  be  sworn  in  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  session  told  severely  on  his  constitution,  and 
he  was  obliged  to  return  home  immediately  after  that  cere- 
mony. For  several  weeks  his  condition  was  such  as  to  give 
rise  to  the  gravest  fears,  but  there  was  an  astonishing  im- 
provement as  the  time  for  the  decisive  vote  upon  the  financial 
problem  which  caused  the  House  to  be  convened  approached. 

Under  the  stimulus  of  the  important  responsibility  the  sick 
man  rallied,  his  desire  to  be  present  here  and  record  his  vote 
seemed  for  a  time  more  effectual  than  the  medicine  and  care 
of  his  physicians  and  nurses,  and  for  some  weeks  hopes  were 
entertained  of  his  ultimate  recovery  to  health.  He  himself 
shared  this  hope,  and  was  in  the  midst  of  preparations  for  an 
extended  stay  at  Washington  when  his  fatal  illness  overtook 
him.  We  must  all  admire,  I  think,  the  indomitable  energy 
and  the  devotion  to  duty  that  proved  stronger  than  approach- 
ing death,  and  forced  our  dying  friend  to  concentrate  his 
shattered  strength  upon  one  final  effort  to  stand  true  to  his 
convictions  and  to  the  duties  imposed  upon  him.  This,  the 
second  striking  incident  of  his  brief  Congressional  career, 
again  indicates  what  might  have  been  expected  of  him  had  lie 
been  spared  to  us. 

It  is  to  men  like  General  LILLY  that  his  adopted  State  owes 
the  great  prosperity  that  has  been  hers — to  men  who  appre- 
ciated the  natural  resources  of  the  State  and  contributed  their 
talents  and  capital  to  developing  them.  The  work  of  these 
men  has  been  good.  I  respect  and  honor  him  who  makes  two 
blades  of  grass  grow  where  one  grew  before,  and  I  see  in  the 
life  work  of  men  like  General  LILLY  a  lasting  contribution  to 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  17 

the  aggregate  of  human  comfort  and  happiness.  In  this 
industrial  age  it  is  the  men  of  action,  and  more  particularly 
the  directors  of  great  business  enterprises,  who  stand  in  the 
front  "rank  of  progress  and  represent  most  truly  the  spirit  of 
the  times;  they  are  at  once  the  product  and  the  support  of 
our  modern  industrial  society,  and  the  foremost  place,  that  in 
other  days  was  given  to  the  poet  or  the  orator  or  the  warrior, 
is  now  properly  theirs. 

Such  a  man  was  General  LILLY,  and  when  we  assemble 
to-day  to  pay  respect  to  his  worth  as  a  public  man,  we  should 
riot  fail  to  consider  his  more  lasting  and,  I  may  say,  more 
important  part  as  a  leader  in  the  work  that  now  absorbs  the 
best  talent  of  the  nation,  and  has  given  to  the  time  and  to  our 
country  its  wonderful  material  prosperity.  General  LILLY'S 
labors  were  rewarded  by  the  acquisition  of  a  large  fortune; 
but,  the  possessor  of  great  wealth,  he  remained  a  plain,  unos- 
tentatious man,  and  its  ownership  distinguished  him  in  noth- 
ing from  his  less  fortunate  neighbors  than  in  the  extent  of  the 
benefactions  it  permitted  him  to  make.  No  friend  in  need 
appealed  in  vain  to  him  for  assistance,  and  he  comforted 
hundreds  by  his  generosity. 

What  I  have  said  of  the  dead  has  been  very  inadequate, 
and,  with  all  respect  to  other  more  eloquent  speakers,  I  will 
say  that  their  words  can  not  do  him  justice.  The  best,  the 
most  appropriate,  memorial  of  a  man  of  General  LILLY'S 
type  is  the  progress  and  advance  made  by  the  neighborhood 
in  which  he  spent  his  life.  And  his  monument  is  his  beauti- 
ful adopted  home,  cradled  in  the  wild  mountains  of  America's 
Switzerland,  the  mistress  of  the  vast  wealth  hidden  in  the 
surrounding  hills.  In  the  upbuilding  of  that  town  his  was  a 
foremost  part,  and  while  it  stands,  long  after  brass  shall 
tarnish  and  marble  crumble  away,  it  will  be  an  enduring 
monument  to  his  memory. 
H.  Mis.  216 2 


18          Address  of  Mr,  Bynum,  of  Indiana,  on  the 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  BYNUM,  OF  INDIANA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  It  was  not  my  pleasure  to  have  bad  a  long 
or  an  intimate  acquaintance  with  General  LILLY,  and  there- 
fore I  am  unable  to  speak  of  those  personal  traits  of  char- 
acter which  usually  distinguish  a  long  and  successful  life. 

The  fact  that  he  had  a  number  of  near  relatives  residing  in 
the  district  I  represent  led  to  my  acquaintance  with  him  early 
in  the  first  session  of  this  Congress.  Our  acquaintance, 
though  too  brief  to  have  ripened  into  a  close  friendship,  was 
sufficient  to  enable  me  to  form  a  judgment  as  to  his  great 
worth  as  a  man  and  a  citizen. 

In  his  appearance  he  was  impressive  by  his  simplicity;  in 
his  manner  and  address,  forcible  by  his  sincerity.  He  was 
not  a  man  who  would  at  first  attract  the  attention  or  make  a 
lasting  impression  upon  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 
His  real  character  was  not  upon  the  surface  where  it  appeared 
respleudently  brilliant  at  a  distance,  but  would  vanish  and 
fade  by  contact,  but  was  embedded  in  his  heart,  where,  with  a 
fervor  undiminished  by  time,  it  gave  light  and  warmth  to  all 
who  came  within  the  radius  of  its  influence  and  power. 

The  life  of  the  deceased  was  one  in  which  both  young  and 
old  may  find  examples  well  worthy  of  emulation.  In  his  long 
and  active  career,  from  the  time  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
Beaver  Meadow  Railroad  Company,  when  but  a  youth,  to 
the  end  of  his  life,  at  the  age  of  more  than  threescore  and  ten, 
one  trait  of  character,  which  may  well  be  termed  the  key  to 
every  successful  life,  was  always  prominent  in  his  work. 
Whatever  labor  he  was  called  upon  to  perform,  whatever 
duties  were  assigned  to  him,  whatever  position  he  was  chosen 
to  fill,  he  did  his  work,  performed  his  labor,  and  discharged 
his  duties  with  the  self-same  interest,  industry,  and  fidelity. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  19 

This  is  a  sure  and  certain  road,  and  there  is  no  other 
avenue,  either  in  public  or  private  life,  which  leads  so  quickly 
to  success. 

There  is  always  open  a  way  for  advancement  to  every  indi- 
vidual, however  humble  his  station  or  exalted  his  position,  if 
he  will  but  faithfully  perform  the  work  and  discharge  the 
duties  of  each  successive  step  as  he  rises  to  the  goal  of  his 
ambition.  Opportunities  are  always  open  to  those  prepared 
and  ready  to  take  advantage  of  them.  Upon  scanning  the 
history  of  the  life  of  General  LILLY  I  was  impressed  with  the 
conviction  that  his  success  was  largely  due  to  the  fact  that, 
while  content  with  the  present,  he  was  possessed  of  a  keen 
foresight  and  always  prepared  to  take  an  advanced  position 
at  the  opportune  time. 

It  is  not  my  province  to  recount  his  many  successful 
achievements  or  to  enumerate  the  important  events  of  his 
life,  covering  an  extended  public  and  private  career  during 
the  most  eventful  period  in  our  country's  history,  were  I 
sufficiently  informed  to  do  so.  This  duty  properly  belonged 
to  and  has  been  well  performed  by  others. 

In  paying  this  tribute  to  his  virtues  and  to  his  memory  it 
is  not  with  the  hope  or  expectation  that  we  can  contribute 
anything  toward  his  peace  or  his  happiness. 

These  ceremonies,  it  appears  to  me,  are  held  not  merely  as 
a  mark  of  respect  and  esteem  for  the  dead,  but  with  a  view  to 
impress  in  some  measure  the  nobler  virtues  and  higher  attri- 
butes of  our  deceased  colleagues  upon  the  minds  of  the  living, 
and  to  inspire  the  youth  of  the  land  to  emulate  the  character 
of  those  whose  lives  are  worthy  and  whose  positions  entitle 
them  to  such  honorable  distinction. 

The  life  of  General  LILLY  was  a  well-rounded  and,  all  in 
all,  an  exceedingly  successful  one.  By  his  energy  and  indus- 
try he  accumulated  a  magnificent  estate.  He  was  called  by 


20     Address  of  Mr.  C.  W.  Stone,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

his  people  to  the  discharge  of  inauy  important  public  posi- 
tions, all  of  which  he  filled  ably  and  honestly,  without  taint 
or  suspicion.  Although  he  had  long  since  passed  the  meridian 
of  life  and  was  rapidly  descending  into  the  shadow  of  the 
evening,  when  the  messenger  came  to  summon  him  from  time 
to  eternity  he  found  him  with  his  armor  still  on. 

Mr.  Speaker,  the  fortunes  of  this  life  are  varied  and  vari- 
able. To  some  is  given  great  riches;  others,  by  reason  of 
their  superior  talents,  achieve  great  distinction,  while  still 
others  acquire  great  honors.  It  is  not  possible  for  all  to  be 
equally  favored,  but  it  is  within  the  power  of  each  and  every 
one  by  his  own  efforts  to  achieve  for  himself  a  name  worth y 
of  being  transmitted  as  a  sacred  inheritance  to  his  children. 
General  LILLY  left  to  his  kindred  not  only  great  wealth  and  a 
record  of  high  and  deserved  honors,  but  the  most  cherished 
and  valued  legacy  he  transmitted  to  them  was  an  unsullied 
name  and  a  spotless  character. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  CHARLES  W.  STONE,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

• 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  For  nearly  half  a  century  WILLIAM  LILLY 
was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  business  life  and  political  activ- 
ity of  the  great  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  at  his  death  was 
one  of  her  Bepresentatives  at  large  on  this  floor.  These  facts 
give  to  his  death  a  sadness  and  a  significance  which  affect  not 
only  this  body  of  which  he  was  a  member,  but  also  the  whole 
State  of  Pennsylvania,  which  had  honored  and  trusted  him, 
and  render  proper  the  formal  testimonials  of  respect  to  which 
this  afternoon  is  devoted. 

Gentlemen  who  were  his  associates  on  this  floor  have  ex- 
pressed, and  will  express,  in  fitting  terms  their  estimate  of  his 
Hiaracter  as  developed  in  the  short  time  he  was  permitted  to 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  21 

serve  with  us,  arid  will  voice  the  general  sorrow  that  his  term 
of  usefulness  in  this  body  was  so  brief  and  so  sadly  ended. 

I  concur  in  all  that  may  be  said  of  him  as  a  legislator,  of 
his  high  standards  of  action,  of  his  fidelity  to  public  duty; 
but  to  this  I  would  add  my  tribute,  crude  perhaps,  but  sincere 
and  heartfelt,  to  the  virtues  and  memory  of  General  LILLY, 
not  simply  as  an  associate  in  this  House,  but  as  a  personal 
friend  long  before  either  of  us  became  members  of  the  Ameri- 
can Congress. 

He  was  my  senior  by  twenty  odd  years,  and  when  I  first 
came  to  know  him  he  had  passed  the  meridian  of  life,  but  I 
knew  him  long  enough  and  well  enough  to  appreciate  his  gen- 
erous, sincere,  and  lovable  qualities.  I  knew  him  casually  at 
first,  as  I  would  meet  him  at  political  assemblies  and  gatherings, 
but  afterwards  more  intimately  as  the  participation  in  different 
capacities  in  matters  of  State  concern  and  administration 
brought  us  together.  He  was  always  frank  and  faithful, 
candid  and  courteous,  honorable,  upright,  and  straightforward. 

He  was  public-spirited,  ready  to  contribute  at  all  times  of 
his  wealth,  of  his  time,  of  his  strength  to  promote  and  sustain 
institutions  of  charity  and  movements  of  public  benefit.  His 
private  benefactions,  his  words  of  cheer  and  encouragement, 
the  strong  helping  hand  he  reached  out  to  the  unfortunate  and 
despairing,  his  acts  of  wise  and  generous  sympathy,  will  long 
keep  his  memory  green  in  many  a  grateful  heart. 

He  was  a  faithful  friend,  a  kind  neighbor,  and  a  loving  hus- 
band. The  inmates  of  his  home  commanded  his  affectionate 
and  thoughtful  care,  and  to  the  associates  of  his  daily  life,  in 
business  enterprise,  in  social  intercourse,  and  in  movements 
affecting  the  welfare  and  prosperity  of  the  little  community 
in  which  he  lived  ho  was  always  considerate,  patient,  liberal, 
and  kind. 

He  was  a  plain,  straightforward,  solid  man,  with  nothing 


22     Address  of  Mr.  C.  W.  Stone,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

of  pretense,  nothing  of  superficiality,  nothing  of  ostentation 
about  him.  What  he  said  he  meant,  and  what  he  meant  he 
was  very  apt  to  say.  His  candor  and  sincerity  were  beyond 
possible  question.  Xo  man  ever  doubted  his  word,  or  hesitated 
to  trust  him  to  do  what  he  said  he  would  do.  He  promised 
only  what  he  thought  he  could  perform,  and  he  seldom  failed 
to  perform  all  he  promised. 

With  General  LILLY,  as  has  been  well  said  by  one  who  knew 
him  better  than  any  of  us,  every  question  had  two  sides — a 
right  side  and  a  wrong  side — and  the  effort  of  his  life  was  to 
always  clearly  distinguish  the  one  from  the  other.  He  was 
dull  to  comprehend  considerations  of  expediency  simply;  he 
looked  beyond  questions  of  policy  to  the  principle  involved, 
and  when  that  was  found,  other  considerations  must  yield  to  it. 
He  sought  to  know  and  to  do  the  right,  not  the  politic,  thing. 

General  LILLY  carried  into  his  political  life  the  same  con- 
scientious convictions  that  characterized  him  elsewhere.  He 
was  a  Republican  because  he  believed  the  principles  of  that 
party  to  be  right,  and  so  believing  he  never  wavered  in  his 
allegiance,  and  gave  of  his  time  and  of  his  money  liberally, 
zealously,  and  honorably  to  promote  its  success.  He  was  a 
partisan  without  bitterness,  a  patriot  without  stain. 

In  his  public  life  he  was  honorable  in  his  methods  and  ear- 
nest in  his  purposes.  His  strength  was  in  action  rather  than 
in  speech.  He  made  no  claim  to  eloquence,  but  stated  his 
convictions  in  a  candid,  straightforward,  intelligent  way  that 
commanded  respectful  attention.  In  his  younger  days  he  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  legislature  of  his  State,  and  later 
one  of  the  principal  moving  powers  that  brought  into  being 
the  constitutional  convention  of  1873.  He  was  a  prominent 
and  earnest  member  of  that  body,  and  to  him,  as  much  as  to 
any  one  man,  we  are  indebted  for  our  present  State  constitu- 
tion, with  its  extraordinary  merits  and  marked  defects. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  23 

Without  recompense  or  reward  or  expectation  of  any  he 
gave  liberally  of  his  valuable  time  and  business  capacity  to 
the  establishment  of  the  hospital  for  the  anthracite  regions, 
and  remained  its  bulwark  of  defense  through  all  its  compli- 
cations and  trials. 

When  he  entered  this  House,  it  was  by  the  largest  vote  ever 
cast  for  a  member  of  this  body,  receiving  five  hundred  and 
twelve  thousand  five  hundred  and  fifty-one  votes.  He  came 
here,  however,  broken  in  health  and  with  the  seeds  of  disease 
and  death  already  germinating  in  his  system. 

He  was  unable  to  give  to  his  duties  that  careful,  painstak- 
ing, and  conscientious  attention  which  always  characterized  his 
discharge  of  every  public  trust.  He  was  for  so  short  a  time 
a  member  of  this  House,  and  during  that  short  time  so  much 
enfeebled  in  health,  that  those  who  only  knew  him  here  have 
but  an  imperfect  conception  of  the  strength  and  breadth  and 
depth  of  his  character,  of  the  generous  and  sterling  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart  that  distinguished  him,  and  of  his  capac- 
ity for  practical  and  effective  work  and  usefulness.  In  the 
constitutional  convention  it  is  recorded  of  him  that  he  never 
missed  a  roll  call  and  was  never  absent  from  his  post,  and  with 
sufficient  physical  strength  he  would  have  displayed  the  same 
conscientious  fidelity  in  this  body. 

When  we  separated  at  the  close  of  the  extra  session, 
General  LILLY  was  cheerful,  hopeful  of  restored  health,  and 
looking  forward  to  a  return  here  at  the  regular  session 
strengthened  and  better  able  to  meet  the  exacting  labors  of 
membership  in  this  body,  and  was  even  considering  the  ad- 
visability of  entering  the  field  as  a  candidate  for  reelection. 

In  one  short  month  the  busy,  useful  life  was  ended. 
Things  of  earth,  its  hopes,  its  aspirations,  its  cares  and  its 
trials,  faded  away  from  the  view  of  eyes  that  opened  upon 
the  realities  of  eternity.  The  lifeless  clay  returned  to  its 


24        Address  of  Mr.  Hicks,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

mother  earth.  The  immortal  spirit,  chastened  by  something 
of  trial  and  disappointment,  purified  by  something  of  suffer- 
ing, ennobled  by  much  of  generous  and  unselfish  effort  and 
achievement,  had  gone  to  the  great  Father  of  all. 

We  mourn  for  a  comrade  lost,  we  grieve  for  a  friend  that 
is  gone,  but  we  cherish  the  memory  of  a  iioble  life,  full  of 
deeds  of  kindness,  of  helpfulness,  of  generosity,  of  justice,  that 
shall  stand  as  a  challenge  and  an  incentive  to  inspire  the 
emulation' of  those  who  shall  follow. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  HICKS,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  The  distinguished  citizen  in  whose  memory 
we  hold  these  impressive  services  was  one  [of  Pennsylvania's 
most  active  and  distinguished  sons  for  over  a  half  century  of 
years.  As  early  as  1850  the  voice  of  WILLIAM  LILLY  was 
heard  in  the  councils  of  that  great  Commonwealth,  and  from 
that  time  until  the  day  of  his  death  his  voice  was  heard  and 
his  vote  was  cast  in  accordance  with  his  views  and  convic- 
tions of  the  right;  and  none  ever  dared  to  assail  his  integrity 
nor  impugn  his  honor  or  patriotism,  and  his  devotion  to  what 
he  believed  was  his  duty  to  his  country  was  one  of  the 
marked  characteristics  of  his  long,  busy,  and  useful  life. 

His  history  may  be  briefly  told:  "He  came  from  the  people 
anil  sympathized  with  them."  Early  in  life  he  became  en- 
grossed in  public  affairs,  and  in  the  conduct  of  vast,  varied, 
and  extensive  business  pursuits  he  was  what  the  world  would 
pronounce  a  successful  man.  Yet,  notwithstanding  these  vast 
interests  and  responsibilities  that  necessarily  absorbed  so 
much  of  time,  care,  thought,  and  attention,  he  was  thor- 
oughly domestic  in  his  habits,  dressed  plainly,  lived  modestly, 
and  was  always  accessible  to  the  petition  and  request  of  any 
just  cause  or  of  any  worthy  and  deserving  poor;  his  ear  was 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  25 

always  ready  to  hear  and  his  hand  was  always  open  to  give 
to  such  causes  and  charities  that  commended  themselves  to 
his  sense  of  right  and  of  justice,  and  long  after  the  words 
spoken  here  in  his  honor  are  forgotten  his  memory  will  live  in 
the  hearts  of  those  whom  he  befriended  and  aided  in  time  of 
need. 

Contentment  to  him  was  better  than  wealth,  and  during  his 
busy  life  he  spent  the  most  of  his  years  in  the  peace  and  quiet 
of  his  own  modest  home,  and  to  him  his  family  circle  exercised 
the  greatest  charm,  and  never  was  he  happier  than  when  met 
and  seen  at  his  own  home  and  by  his  own  hearthstone.  His 
hospitality  was  of  that  generous  and  noble  kind  that  once  en- 
joyed could  never  be  forgotten.  His  acquaintance  was  proba- 
bly the  most  extensive  of  any  business  man  in  the  great  State 
of  his  adoption,  and  in  all  matters  of  a  public  nature  in  which 
the  interests  of  the  entire  State  was  concerned  his  counsel 
was  always  solicited  by  the  leaders  of  his  party,  and  his  ad- 
vice was  respected  by  public  men  of  all  shades  of  political 
opinions. 

Commencing  his  life  as  a  member  of  the  Democratic  party, 
it  was  during  the  great  struggle  for  national  existence  that 
he  allied  himself  with  the  Republican  party,  and  ever  after- 
wards he  was  one  of  the  most  trusted  and  honored  leaders  of 
that  great  organization.  He  had,  however,  always  been  a  pro- 
tectionist, and  believed  as  firmly  in  that  doctrine  and  policy 
being  for  the  best  iuterests  of  all  the  people  as  he  believed  in 
the  virtues  of  religion,  the  existence  of  a  future  state,  and  the 
necessity  of  preparation  for  its  enjoyment;  indeed,  both  as  a 
Democrat  and  Republican,  he  advocated  and  supported  a  high 
protective  tariff,  and  in  this  respect  a  change  of  party  caused 
no  change  in  principle  or  of  his  belief  in  the  necessity  of  pro- 
tection to  American  industries  in  order  to  properly  foster  and 
encourage  the  prosperity  of  the  country  and  its  manufactures. 


26        Address  of  Mr.  Hicks,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

Indeed  he  was  a  practical  man,  and  knew  that  the  nation 
that  was  governed  by  the  most  practical  ideas  must  outstrip 
all  competitors,  and  he  felt  that  he  lived  to  see  his  theory 
vindicated  by  actual  fact,  and  deeply  regretted  the  possible 
departure  by  the  Government  from  the  course  pursued  in  the 
past  thirty  years  of  progress  and  national  advancement.  As 
a  member  of  the  constitutional  convention  of  Pennsylvania  he 
took  a  leading  position  among  the  great  men  of  that  body,  and 
was  one  of  its  most  tireless  members  in  the  discharge  of  duty, 
and  when  he  became  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  the  distin- 
guished position  of  Congressman  at  large  of  his  State  in  J892, 
so  great  a  hold  had  he  upon  the  affections  of  tire  people  that 
there  was  cast  for  him  the  highest  number  of  votes  that  was 
given  any  candidate  in  that  eventful  year. 

Of  his  attendance  and  influence  here,  Mr.  Speaker,  on 
account  of  his  failing  health,  his  social  qualities  and  his 
presence  were  comparatively  unknown  except  by  his  col- 
leagues and  a  few  who  sat  near  him.  Indeed,  how  many  of  us 
frequently  know  little  of  each  other  here,  even  when  in  the 
best  of  health,  unless  we  are  from  the  same  State,  or  chance 
to  be  of  the  same  committee,  or  reside  in  the  same  locality, 
or  be  near  each  other  in  our  seats;  how  rarely  do  we  know  or 
see  much  of  each  other,  how  isolated  we  are,  and  how  difficult 
it  is  for  two  busy  members  of  this  great  body  to  become  well 
acquainted.  We  meet  here  at  noontime,  and,  after  a  few 
hours  spent  in  the  excitement  of  debate,  in  the  heat  of  party 
struggle,  or  in  the  effort  to  harmonize  differences  on  important 
political  and  economic  questions,  in  which  we  finally  meet, 
attack,  divide,  and  often  disagree,  again  we  part,  each  our 
own  way,  enjoying  our  own  convictions,  assuming  our  posi- 
tion of  isolation,  and  parting,  as  many  of  us  do,  as  much  of 
strangers  as  when  we  first  met;  and  when  the  hour  of  adjourn- 
ment comes  we  hasten  away  and  again  lose  ourselves  in  our 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  27 

own  respective  constituencies,  each  following  his  own  bent 
and  serving  his  own  people. 

A  stranger  among  strangers,  it  was  my  pleasure  to  know 
General  LILLY,  and  breathe  from  him  the  air  of  pure  friend- 
ship and  enjoy  his  unstinted  hospitality,  and  in  many  a  social 
converse  I  learned  to  love,  honor,  and  respect  him  and  dis- 
cover in  him  the  charm  that  bound  him  to  his  own  people  of 
that  beautiful  place  known  as  the  Switzerland  of  America — 
beautiful  Mauch  Chunk;  and  I  discovered  that  social  sweet- 
ness and  gentleness  in  this  good  man  that  can.  never  die  so 
long  as '-memory  lives,  such  a  charm  as  we  can  never  dismiss 
to  the  chamber  of  forgetfulness;  and  those  qualities  of  head 
and  heart  that  we  admire,  prize,  and  venerate  in  men  so 
existed  in  him,  and  became  so  embedded  not  only  in  my 
memory,  but  in  the  memory  of  all  who  enjoyed  this  honor, 
that  the  recollections  of  them  can  never  be  effaced. 

The  sorrow  we  feel  for  this  our  late  distinguished  col- 
league, friend,  and  patriot  is  that  sorrow  that  we  refuse  to  be 
separated  from ;  'tis  a  wound  we  feel  that  we  decline  to  per- 
mit to  be  healed;  'tis  one  of  our  life's  afflictions  that  tends  to 
sweeten  life  and  will  make  us  the  holier  and  better;  and  never 
do  weMvish  to  blot  out  this  beautiful  sorrow  for  our  dead,  this 
tnd  tender  recollection  of  the  friend  for  whom  we  mourn 
We  will  not  accept  a  consolation  that  has  to  be  pur- 
by  the  forgetfulness  of  the  life,  the  character,  and 
services  of  this  great  and  good  man,  of  whom  we  can 


'Tis  thro'  the  ocean  tide  of  years 
The  memory  of  the  just  appears; 
'Tis  thro'  the  tempest  and  the  gloom 
The  good  man's  virtues  light  the  tomb. 

Yea,  Mr.  Speaker,  the  loveliness  of  the  pure  life  of  our  dead 
friend,  now  that  lie  has  gone,  so  softens  our  grief  into  tender 
thought  and  meditation  that  we  would  not  desire  to  root  out 


30      Address  of  Mr.  Wright,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

preceded  his  entrance  on  this  floor.  His  ripened  judgment  and 
experience,  combined  with  his  sterling  virtues,  preeminently 
fitted  him,  not  only  to  perform  the  usual  legislative  duties,  but 
to  have  obtained  national  recognition  as  one  of  the  stalwart 
types  of  broad-minded  American  statesmen,  in  all  that  the 
term  implies. 

Sir,  it  is  thus  eminently  fitting  that  this  representative  body 
of  the  American  people  should,  in  view  of  the  abrupt  and  final 
departure  of  such  a  man  from  among  us,  call  a  halt  in  our 
usual  course,  not  only  for  the  purpose  of  honoring  the  dead 
statesman,  but  also  to  benefit  ourselves  by  pointing  out  and 
considering  his  virtues. 

Many  lessons  may  be  learned  from  the  life  of  such  a  man. 
The  rule  which  apparently  guided  his  conduct  throughout  the 
long  years  which  were  given  him  was  a  very  simple  one — to 
do  what  was  just  and  right. 

His  life  had  passed  the  allotted  term  of  threescore  and 
ten,  and  he  had  achieved  not  only  success  in  the  accumula- 
tion of  material  wealth,  but,  what  is  not  so  commonly  allied  to 
this,  the  possession  of  the  confidence,  respect,  and  admiration 
of  all  who  came  in  contact  with  him.  His  memory  will  be 
honored  by  those  who  knew  him  best — his  townspeople  and 
neighbors;  for  his  good  deeds  constitute  a  monument  to  his 
virtues  which  will  cause  his  affectionate  remembrance  |Q  their 
minds  and  hearts. 

General  LILLY  had  the  good  fortune  to  have  been  reaf 
a  farm,  so  often  the  nursery  of  unusual  mental  and  plr 
development  and  power.    His  earliest  associations  were 
people  who  earned  their  living  by  the  honest  labor  of  tl 
own  hands,  and  it  was  from  the  impressions  thus  made  on  ^ 
mind  in  its  plastic  state  that  his  sympathies  were  inspired, 
and  these  early  impressions  had  a  great  influence  in  the  later 
movements  of  his  life. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  31 

His  ancestry  was  of  the  best,  his  forefathers  having  been 
farmers  in  the  State  of  New  York  prior  to  the  Revolution,  in 
which  they  assisted  to  obtain  the  independence  of  this  coun- 
try. He  removed  from  New  York  to  Pennsylvania  at  an  early 
period  of  his  life. 

Although  his  father,  Col.  William  Lilly,  was  a  man  of  posi- 
tion, the  friend  and  associate  of  many  leading  men  of  his  day, 
the  son  was  taught  to  earn  his  own  living  and  to  perform  his 
duty  faithfully  in  whatever  state  of  life  he  might  be  called. 

He  possessed  great  administrative  ability,  backed  by  clean 
instincts,  which  enabled  him  to  improve  the  natural  business 
opportunities  presented,  but  the  pursuit  of  wealth  was  always 
subordinated  to  the  higher  duties  of  man,  and  it  is  not  as  the 
millionaire,  nor  as  the  astute  manager  of  public  affairs,  that 
his  name  will  live  the  longest,  but  as  the  kind  neighbor,  the 
public- spirited  citizen,  and  the  friend  of  the  poor  and  needy. 

General  LILLY'S  life  embraced  important  and  critical 
periods  in  our  national  history;  his  record  throughout  was 
upright  and  loyal.  As  a  citizen  ho  was  broad  and  benevolent, 
and  as  a  leading  figure  in  the  politics  of  his  State  he  was  dis- 
tinguished for  common  sense,  practical  ideas,  and  conservative 
opinions.  He  was  ever  the  friend  and  advocate  of  all  the 
great  reform  measures  that  have  elevated  and  purified  our 
Republic,  and  he  worked  consistently  for  what  he  regarded  as 
the  good  of  the  people  and  the  highest  welfare  of  his  State. 
Throughout  his  long  life  no  breath  of  suspicion  ever  assailed 
his  integrity  or  dimmed  the  brightness  of  his  honor. 

Naturally  endowed  with  a  desire  for  knowledge  and  with  a 
taste  for  the  highest  results  of  intellectual  effort,  he  collected 
a  large  and  well-selected  library  and  was  a  diligent  student 
as  well  as  a  munificent  patron  of  the  best  types  of  artistic 
effort  in  painting  and  sculpture. 

His  observation  of  industrial  development  and  his  study  of 


32     Address  of  Mr.  Wanger,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

political  economy  had  caused  bis  warm  espousal  of  protection 
to  American  labor,  and  in  1881  be  was  appointed  chairman  ot 
the  tariff  convention  at  New  York. 

He  died  suddenly.  I  have  a  letter,  written  but  three  days 
before,  in  which  he  refers  to  an  operation  on  his  eyes,  which 
he  feared  would  detain  him  from  his  duties  for  a  few  weeks, 
and  asking  that  he  be  paired  on  this  floor.  But  though  his 
death  was  sudden,  it  was  perhaps  better  so.  Better  one 
pang,  one  throb,  than  weeks  of  pain  and- slow  decay.  He  was 
prepared  for  death,  for  his  life  had  been  one  "  that  could  send 
a  challenge  to  its  end,  and  when  it  comes,  say,  Welcome, 
friend ! " 

While  I  may  not,  in  glowing  periods  or  in  stately  phrase, 
record  this  tribute  to  my  departed  colleague,  yet  I  may  simply 
state  my  heartfelt  sorrow  at  his  untimely  departure  from  the 
field  of  action  for  which  his  life  had  so  eminently  fitted  him. 

He  met  with  ability,  dignity,  and  with  clean-hearted  and 
clean-handed  integrity  the  requirements  of  public  life  in  many 
trying  positions,  and  he  would  here  undoubtedly  have  ex- 
tended his  record  of  never  disappointing  those  who  gave  him 
their  confidence. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  WANGER,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr  SPEAKER:  The  estimable  qualities  of  him  whose  death 
we  mourn,  and  the  lessons  to  be  drawn  from  his  useful  life  and 
lamented  departure  from  among  men  have  been  so  graphic- 
ally brought  to  our  attention  by  the  distinguished  gentlemen 

, 

who  have  preceded  me  that  my  duty  may  be  briefly  dis- 
charged. General  LILLY  was  as  a  giant  oak  of  the  forest 
among  men.  Among  the  great  forces  of  nature  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  her  sturdy  manhood,  ho  hewed  his  way  from  a 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  33 

humble  station  into  a  position  of  prominence  in  business,  in 
official,  and  in  political  life.  He  was  a  man  who  attached 
himself  to  every  one,  however  humble,  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact;  a  man  whose  plain  demeanor  and  blunt  speech  told 
of  the  utter  lack  of  affectation  in  him  and  of  the  absolute 
sincerity  of  every  word  he  uttered ;  a  man  in  whom  you  felt, 
however  brief  your  acquaintance,  that  so  long  as  you  were 
true  to  duty  and  honor  you  had  in  him  a  devoted  friend;  one 
who  was  willing  to  promote  your  welfare,  and  to  share 'with 
you  every  opportunity  for  advancement  which  he  enjoyed. 
He  was  a  man  who  made  his  record  and  has  woven  it  eter- 
nally, so  far  as  mortal  affairs  are  concerned,  into  the  history 
of  the  community  and  State  in  which  he  lived. 

As  has  been  told,  in  the  days  of  his  youth  and  the  maturer 
years  of  his  early  manhood  he  was  an  unflinching  D.ernocrat 
Yielding  to  what  he  believed  to  be  the  dictates  of  patriotic 
duty  toward  his  country,  he  severed  his  allegiance  to  that 
party  and  joined  tbe  Eepublicau  party,  and  although  the  lat- 
ter party  was  locally  in  the  minority  in  the  part  of  the  State 
in  which  he  lived,  and  he  was  not  without  political  ambition, 
he  never  wavered  in  his  fidelity  to  that  party. 

He  was  never  willing  to  surrender  duty  in  order  that  per- 
sonal advantage  might  accrue  to  himself. 

The  locality  in  which  he  lived  was  a  grand  section  of  the 
grand  State  of  Pennsylvania,  rich  in  coal  and  other  mineral 
deposits,  and  those  were  great  men  who  made  the  prosperity 
of  the  Lehigh  Valley,  and  enabled  the  State  and  the  people 
generally  to  enjoy  the  magnificent  bounty  which  Providence 
had  bestowed  upon  that  region ;  and  while  General  LILLY 
himself  was  in  the  front  rank  of  the  successful  men  who  ele- 
vated that  section  and  promoted  the  general  prosperity  of  the 
citizens  there  inhabiting,  yet  there  never  was  a  time  when 
success  made  him  at  all  proud,  made  him  at  all  evidence  any 
H.  Mis.  216 3 


34     Address  of  Mr.  Scranton,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

feeling  of  superiority  over  anybody  less  successful  than  him- 
self, or  made  him  lose  the  slightest  interest  in  those  around 
him,  no  matter  how  young  in  years  or  how  humble  their  sta- 
tion in  life. 

It  was  one  of  the  elements  of  his  great  strength  in  business 
and  in  political  life  that  he  had  such  a  keen  and  lively  interest 
in  the  young  and  rising  generation,  who  always  felt  that  his 
was  a  hand  which  would  help  to  elevate  them,  and  when  he 
fell  there  was  a  vast  number  of  poor  people  of  the  eastern 
part  of  Pennsylvania  who  felt  that  in  his  death  they  had  lost 
a  sincere  and  faithful  friend.  He  has  gone  from  among  us. 
He  went  almost  immediately  after  he  had  realized  what  was 
said  to  have  been  the  ambition  of  his  life — a  seat  in  this  dis- 
tinguished body.  But,  although  he  is  gone,  the  memory  of 
his  sterling;  virtues  lives,  and  his  example  incites  us  all  to 
higher  and  loftier  aspirations  toward  the  performance  of  our 
duty  to  our  fellow-men  and  to  this  great  nation  of  which  it  is 
our  rich  blessing  to  be  citizens. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  SCRANTON,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  Gen.  WILLIAM  LILLY  was  an  excellent  type 
of  a  large  class  of  men  developed  by  every  generation  of 
Americans.  I  allude  to  the  class  who,  without  the  advan- 
tages of  inherited  wealth  or  superior  educational  facilities, 
forge  their  way  to  positions  of  commanding  influence  in  the 
social,  business,  and  political  channels  of  life.  It  has  been 
my  good  fortune  to  know  something  of  his  career,  and  of  the 
personal  characteristics  that  made  him  a  forceful  factor  in 
that  earnest,  busy,  enterprising  valley  of  the  Lehigh,  where 
all  the  years  of  his  manhood  were  passed,  and  with  nearly 
every  great  developing  enterprise  of  which  he  *was  identi- 
fied. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  35 

A  native  of  the  Empire  State,  he  early  in  life  became  a 
Pennsylvanian.  His"fcarlier  career  very  clearly  demonstrates 
that  even  before  he  had  reached  the  years  of  manhood 
WILLIAM  LILLY  was  possessed  of  the  commendable  ambition 
to  occupy  a  position  of  influence  and  power  among  his  fellow- 
men.  In  this  he  was  far  more  successful  than  most  men. 

For  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  was  recognized  as 
one  of  the  most  sagacious  and  successful  business  men  of  the 
Lehigh  Valley  and  the  anthracite  coal  fields.  He  conceived 
the  plan  for  his  life  work,  and  never  hesitated  nor  faltered 
until  he  reached  the  goal  he  aimed  for. 

Entering  upon  active  life  in  an  humble  capacity  in  the 
service  of  the  first  steam  railway  in  the  Lehigh  Valley,  he 
climbed  steadily  and  perseveringly  to  positions  of  ever- 
increasing  trust  and  responsibility.  Whatever  successes  in 
the  domain  of  wealth  and  honors  WILLIAM  LILLY  achieved 
were  the  results  of  well-directed  and  intelligent  endeavor  and 
of  honest  methods. 

The  people  of  the  community  in  which  he  carved  out  his 
career  early  in  life  recognized  'his  splendid  natural  abilities, 
his  integrity,  his  manliness,  by  conferring  civic  and  military 
honors  upon  him.  He  was  the  youngest  man  upon  whom  the 
military  ranks  of  colonel  and  brigadier-general  were  ever  con- 
ferred by  a  governor  of  Pennsylvania. 

Before  he  had  attained  the  age  of  thirty  years  his  fellow- 
citizens  had  twice  chosen  him  to  represent  them  in  the  halls 
of  the  State  legislature.  Later  the  people  of  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania  sent  him  as  a  delegate  at  large  to  the  conven- 
tion that  framed  the  present  constitution  of  that  Common- 
wealth. With  honor  and  ability  he  filled  every  station  in  life, 
public  or  private,  civil  or  military,  to  which  circumstances  or 
the  voice  of  his  fellow-citizens  called  him. 


36     Address  of  Mr.  Scranton,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

The  dominant  characteristics  of  WILLIAM  LILLY  were  per- 
severance, industry,  exacting  integrity  in  business  affairs,  and 
unflinching  adherence  to  his  own  convictions.  Without  the 
advantages  of  superior  education,  he  was  nevertheless  a  man 
of  great  intelligence  and  wide  knowledge,  a  close  student  of 
political  economy,  conversant  with  many  branches  of  the 
sciences,  and  a  liberal  patron  of  literature  and  the  fine  arts. 

That  General  LILLY  was  a  man  true  to  his  convictions  of 
duty,  without  regard  to  selfish,  personal  considerations  or 
consequences,  is  conspicuously  manifested  in  his  political 
career.  Keared  under  Democratic  influences,  he  adhered 
steadfastly  to  his  earlier  convictions  through  the  stormy 
period  preceding  the  civil  war,  and  until  the  first  campaign 
in  the  great  internecine  strife  had  been  fought.  Then,  with 
characteristic  courage  and  manliness,  he  publicly  abjured  his 
former  political  associations,  and  allied  himself  with  the 
Republican  party.  This  act  was  prompted  by  sincere  con- 
victions of  duty.  In  the  very  prime  of  life  as  he  then  was, 
ambitious  of  political  preferment,  the  acknowledged  leader  of 
a  political  party  overwhelmingly  dominant  in  his  own  section 
of  the  State,  he  unhesitatingly  sacrificed  all  prospective  polit- 
ical ambitious  to  his  convictions  of  duty  as  a  citizen. 

General  LILLY  was  as  earnest,  as  energetic,  and  as  honor- 
able in  his  political  relations  and  efforts  as  he  was  in  his  vast 
business  affairs.  In  whatever  he  undertook  he  was  earnest 
to  the  point  of  aggressiveness.  In  his  later  years  he  met 
with  disappointments  in  his  political  aspirations,  but  he  was 
far  too  true  to  his  convictions  to  permit  such  reverses  to 
swerve  him  from  the  path  of  duty.  To  occupy  a  seat  in  this 
House  filled  the  measure  of  his  later  ambition.  The  high 
regard  in  which  he  was  held  by  the  masses  of  his  State  is 
attested  by  the  large  majority  by  which  he  was  elected. 

In  the  Providence  of  God,  he  was  stricken  down  by  disease 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  37 

soon  after  his.  election,  and  rallied  only  sufficiently  to  be 
sworn  in  and  for  a  brief  period  to  participate  in  the  deliber- 
ations of  this  body,  when  he  was  called  to  his  final  rest. 

The  life  of  WILLIAM  LILLY  is  only  a  repetition  of  the  lives 
of  thousands  of  other  Americans  who  availed  themselves  of 
the  opportunities  and  advantages  which  our  institutions  hold 
out  to  all  alike.  He  achieved  success  in  life  by  manly  effort. 
I  know  of  no  better  type  of  the  self-made  American  man  than 
WILLIAM  LILLY.  Some  starting  in  life  in  as  lowly  capacity 
as  he  did  have  reached  greater  eminence,  some  have  achieved 
greater  results  and  attained  a  more  widespread  fame,  but 
none  surpass  him  in  nobility  of  character  and  true  American 
manhood. 

The  nation,  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  and  this 
House  sustain  a  great  loss  in  the  death  of  WILLIAM  LILLY. 
This  Chamber  might  not  have  resounded  with  words  of 
eloquence  falling  from  his  lips,  for  oratory  was  not  one  of  his 
gifts,  but  he  would  have  left  the  impress  of  his  eminent  busi- 
ness capacity,  his  sound  common  sense,  and  his  uncompromis- 
ing and  patriotic  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  the  Eepublic  upon 
the  records  and  the  work  of  this  House.  Had  life  and  health 
been  spared  to  him  he  would  soon  have  become  conspicuous 
among  us  for  industrious  and  intelligent  devotion  to  his  duties 
as  a  representative  of  the  people. 

He  has  passed  away  full  of  years,  leaving  behind  him  the 
record  of  a  well-rounded  and  most  honorable  career.  His 
successes  and  victories  were  not  those  of  the  soldier  or  the 
politician.  They  were  achieved  in  those  fields  where  the  real 
power  and  wealth  of  great  nations  are  developed — in  the  busy 
channels  of  industry,  where  capital  and  labor  combine  their 
forces  for  the  development  of  nature's  riches,  causing  towns 
and  cities  to  spring  up  in  the  waste  places,  and  prosperity r 
happiness,  and  content  to  abound  among  the  masses. 


38     Address  of  Mr.  Mutchler,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

WILLIAM  LILLY'S  memory  will  be  sacredly  cherished  by 
many  in  the  immediate  community  where  he  lived  for  half  a 
century,  for  he  was  as  generous  and  kindly  hearted  as  he  was 
just.  Many  a  prosperous  man  of  to-day  owes  his  success 
largely  to  the  assistance  he  received  from  General  LILLY  in 
surmounting  the  rugged  places  in  business  life. 

He  well  deserves  the  tribute  of  respect  we  here  bestow  upon 
him.  Brave,  generous,  true,  and  honorable,  no  man  could  fail 
to  honor  him  who  knew  him. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  MUTCHLER,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  We  are  here  to  day  assembled  in  accordance 
with  a  graceful  custom — to  pay  a  tribute  to  the  memory  of  a 
departed  representative  of  the  people,  to  speak  of  one  whose 
life's  work  is  accomplished,  and  who  has  passed  beyond  the 
reach  of  criticism  and  of  praise.  Flattery  can  not  reach  the 
dull  cold  ears,  and  envy  is  powerless  to  vex  the  quiet  heart. 
We  left  him  in  peaceful  slumber  amid  the  everlasting  hills 
surrounding  the  home  he  loved  in  the  Lehigh  Valley.  There 
all  that  was  mortal  of  WILLIAM  LILLY  lies  in  the  bosom  of 

« 

Mother  Earth,  where  the  wind  moans  through  the  trees  above 
his  grave,  and  the  sod  is  bound  with  frost  and  covered  with 
snow,  waiting  for  the  sure  and  certain  coming  of  the  resur- 
rection of  the  spring. 

WILLIAM  LILLY  came  of  the  good  old  stock  which  in  the 
struggle  for  our  national  independence  left  their  farms  in 
York  State  to  fight  with  their  countrymen  for  the  cause  of 
liberty.  He  inherited  the  spirit  of  independence  and  Jove  of 
country,  and  the  courage  to  stand  for  what  he  believed  to  be 
right,  from  an  ancestry  which,  "in  the  days  that  tried  men's 
souls,"  offered  all  that  they  had  and  all  that  they  were  for  the 
love  of  country. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  39 

In  1836  Mr,  LILLY'S  father  became  interested  in  mining 
coal,  and  in  1838  he  left  New  York  State  with  his  family  and 
came  to  our  beautiful  valley  of  the  Lehigh.  Our  departed 
friend  was  then  but  seventeen  years  of  age,  of  a  bright, 
active,  and  cheerful  disposition,  and  with  a  capacity  for 
making  lasting  friends.  In  his  old  age  he  retained  the  friends 
of  his  early  manhood  and  often  talked  with  them,  when  his 
hair  was  white,  of  the  old  days  when  he  was  employed  on  the 
Beaver  Meadow  Railroad,  which  ran  from  the  coal  mines  at 
the  upper  end  of  what  was  then  a  part  of  Northampton  but 
is  now  Carbon  County,  and  carried  the  coal  to  Parryville. 
He  rose  to  the  position  of  conductor,  and  in  a  few  years  his 
devotion  to  duty  and  his  reliability  were  rewarded  by  promo- 
tion to  a  position  in  the  administrative  department  of  the 
railroad. 

He  was  clear-headed,  careful,  and  of  more  than  ordinary 
business  sagacity.  He  was  naturally  prudent,  and  his  ambi- 
tion to  rise  made  him  save  money,  and,  when  he  saw  the 
opportunity,  to  invest  it  in  a  coal-land  speculation.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  war  the  development  of  railroads  and  the 
enormous  use  of  anthracite  coal  for  manufacturing  and  do- 
mestic purposes  made  him  wealthy.  His  undertaking  had 
been  regarded  by  many  men  of  judgment  and  experience  as 
extremely  hazardous,  but  he  adhered  to  it  as  faithfully  as  he 
had  to  his  railroad  work,  and  bided  his  time.  The  time  came 
when  he  was  a  wealthy  man.  But  wealth  did  not  harden  his 
heart,  nor  did  it  deaden  the  generous  impulses  of  his  soul, 
and,  among  those  with  whom  he  lived,  he  won  a  priceless 
treasure — a  good  name.  He  was  a  Democrat  then,  and  was 
twice  sent  to  the  legislature  of  his  State. 

In  1862  he  became  a  Republican,  and  subsequently  an  ad- 
vocate of  the  doctrine  that  it  was  the  wisest  policy  of  the 
Government  to  protect  American  industries  by  high  tariff 


40     Address  of  Mr.  Mutchler,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

duties.  He  became  distinguished  as  an  ardent  protectionist 
and,  with  characteristic  energy,  advocated  his  views  in  con- 
ventions and  other  public  meetings.  It  gave  him  fame.  It 
brought  him  here  as  Congressman  at  large.  There  are  many, 
like  myself,  who  believe  he  was  mistaken  in  these  protection 
views,  but  there  are  none  who  do  not  believe  him  to  have 
been  perfectly  honest  and  conscientious  in  holding  them.  He 
did  what  he  believed  was  his  duty. 

For  first  and  last  and  all  the  time  the  radical  trend  and 
disposition  of  this  man's  mind  was  to  seek  for,  to  discover, 
and  to  do  his  duty  in  whatever  position  in  life  he  might  be 
called  upon  to  act.  And  when  he  believed  he  was  right 
there  was  no  swerving  him.  True  as  the  needle  to  the  pole, 
firm  as  the  everlasting  hills,  steadfast  as  the  firmament  on 
high,  no  cruel  dart  of  criticism,  no  venom  of  detraction  nor 
idle  reflections  of  a  silly  world  had  power  to  move  him.  That 
which  he  in  his  soul  believed  was  right  he  would  do;  and 
his  patient  continuance  in  what  he  believed  to  be  welldoing 
to  the  end  is  a  lesson  in  constancy  to  conviction  we  who 
remain  may  well  take  to  heart. 

Every  man  who  stands  in  this  Chamber  to  speak  and  to  act 
in  a  representative  capacity  performs  a  weighty  and  solemn 
duty.  His  constituents  send  him  here  to  represent,  according 
to  his  best  judgment,  certain  political  principles.  He  is  here 
not  to  represent  an  individual  or  a  class,  but  a  party — a  party 
made  up  of  thousands  of  individuals  holding  widely  diverging 
and  conflicting  views  on  public  questions,  and  of  many  classes 
having  various  and  conflicting  interests  to  be  affected  by  legis- 
lation. But  this  line  of  duty  is  marked  out  by  certain  broad, 
distinctive,  and  fundamental  party  principles,  to  which,  in  the 
main,  every  individual  and  every  class  in  the  thousands  whose 
votes  elect  him  are  agreed  upon.  And  while  the  persuasive 
and  convincing  eloquence  of  Representatives  on  this  floor 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  41 

compel  consideration  and  command  admiration,  yet,  when  at 
last  the  final  account  is  made  up,  it  is  not  what  we  say  here 
but  what  we  do  here,  that  determines  the  measure  of  our  faith- 
fulness in  the  line  of  our  duty. 

The  lesson  of  WILLIAM:  LILLY'S  life  is  the  beauty  and  use- 
fulness, the  satisfying  consciousness,  and  sure  success  of  a 
life  whose  aims  and  ends  are  modified  and  directed  by  de- 
votion to  duty.  As  we  looked  upon  him  but  a  few  weeks 
ago,  lying  in  the  deep,  calm  sleep  which  falls  upon  us  all  at 
last,  we  saw  not  alone  the  aged  man  whose  life's  span  has 
stretched  beyond  "threescore  years  and  ten."  The  boy  who, 
with  cheerful  heart  and  willing  hands,  worked  upon  his  father's 
farm,  lay  there.  The  bright,  active  young  man,  who  was  the 
pride  and  hope  of  the  home  circle  as  he  went  forth  day  by 
day  to  work  with  patient  faithfulness  on  the  Beaver  Meadow 
Eailroad  years  ago,  slept  there. 

The  active,  hopeful  young  speculator,  whose  cheerfulness 
and  unfailing  steadfastness  inspired  his  partners  with  the 
faith  to  hold  on,  was  there,  quiet  and  still  forever.  The  faith- 
ful representative  of  the  people  in  the  legislature  and  in  this 
House,  the  true  husband,  the  good  neighbor  and  friend,  all 
were  there,  and  the  sacred  tears  of  sorrow  that  fell  as  he  was 
borne  to  the  grave  were  hallowed  by  a  thousand  memories  of 
his  faithfulness  in  all  the  relations  of  his  useful  and  honorable 
life.  And  so  he  passes  away.  His  earthly  career  has  ended 
as  a  tale  that  is  told,  and  it  is  recorded  of  him,  "He  did  his 
duty."  So  may  it  be  with  his  colleagues,  the  members  of  this 
House,  who,  in  a  few  short  months  or  years,  must  follow  him. 

The  Speaker  pro  tempore  (at  three  o'clock  and  eight  min- 
utes p.  m.).  In  accordance  with  the  resolution  already  adopt- 
ed, the  Chair  declares  the  House  adjourned  until  Monday 
next  at  twelve  o'clock  m. 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  SENATE 


ANNOUNCEMENT  OF  DEATH. 

DECEMBER  5,  1893. 

Resolved,  That  the  Senatewhas  heard  with  deep. sensibility  the  announce- 
ment of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  late  a  Eepresentative  from 
the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Resolved,  That  the   Senate  concur  in  the  resolution  of  the   House   of 
Representatives  providing  for  the  appointment  of  a  joint  committee  to 
attend  the  funeral  of  the  deceased  at  his  late  residence  in  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  that  the  committee  on   the  part  of  the  Senate,  con- 
sisting of  five  Senators,  be  appointed  by  the  Vice-President. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  House 
of  Representatives. 

In  compliance  with  the  foregoing,  the  Vice-President  ap- 
pointed Mr.  Quay,  Mr.  Manderson,  Mr.  Carey,  Mr.  Smith,  and 
Mr.  Kyle  as  said  committee. 

43 


EULOGIES. 

APRIL  28,  1894. 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  Chair  lays  before  the  Senate 
resolutions  from  the  House  of  Eepreseutatives,  which  will  be 
read. 

The  Secretary  read  the  resolutions  of  the  House  of  Eepre- 
sentatives,  as  follows: 

IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  February  17,  1894. 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  profound  sorrow  the  announce- 
ment of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  late  a  Representative  from 
the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  House  be  now  suspended,  in  order 
that  tribute  he  paid  to  his  memory. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  the  House  be  directed  to  communicate  these 
resolutions  to  the  Senate. 

Resolved,  That,  as  an  additional  mark  of  respect,  the  House,  at  the  con- 
clusion of  these  ceremonies,  do  adjourn. 

Mr.   CAMERON.  Mr.   President,   I   submit  the    resolutions 
which  I  send  to  the  desk  and  ask  their  adoption. 
The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  resolutions  will  be  read. 
The  Secretary  read  the  resolutions,  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  heard  with  deep  sensibility  the  announce- 
ment of  the  death  of  Hon.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  late  a  Representative  from  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania. 

Resolved,  That  the  business  of  the  Senate  be  now  suspended, in  order 

that  fitting  tribute  be  paid  to  his  memory. 

• 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
resolutions  submitted  by  the  Senator  from  Pennsylvania. 
The  resolutions  were  unanimously  agreed  to. 

44 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  45 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  CAMERON,  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  Gen.  WILLIAM  LILLY,  Congressman  at 
large  from  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  died  suddenly  at  his 
residence  in  Mauch  Chunk,  Carbon  County,  Pa.,  at  one  o'clock 
and  twenty  minutes  p.  in.  on  December  1,  1893,  in  the  sev- 
enty-second year  of  his  age.  He  was  preparing  to  come  to 
Washington  to  take  his  seat  at  the  beginning  of  this  session 
of  Congress.  His  death,  which  was  a  great  shock  and  sur- 
prise to  all  his  friends,  was  caused  by  congestion  of  the  lungs, 
brought  about  by  a  severe  cold  which  he  contracted  during  a 
visit  to  Indianapolis  since  the  adjournment  of  the  recent  ex- 
traordinary session  on  the  3d  of  November  last.  He  lived 
only  twenty  minutes  after  he  was  taken  seriously  ill.  His 
health  had  been  in  a  precarious  condition  ever  since  he  was 
stricken  with  paralysis  a  year  before.  He  took  the  oath  of 
office  in  the  House  at  the  beginning  of  the  extraordinary 
session  called  together  by  the  President  on  the  7th  of  August 
last,  and  on  the  6th  of  September,  having  served  just  one 
month  of  his  term,  he  was  compelled  to  apply  for  and  received 
an  indefinite  leave  of  absence  on  account  of  sickness,  and 
returned  to  his  home. 

General  LILLY  was  born  at  Penn  Yan,  Yates  County,  N.  Y., 
June  3,  182.1.  He  was  descended  from  Kevolutiouary  stock, 
his  forefathers  having  participated  in  the  memorable  strug- 
gle by  which  American  freedom  was  achieved.  His  father, 
Col.  William  Lilly,  left  New  York  with  his  family  in  1838  and 
settled  in  Carbon  County,  in  the  beautiful  and  enterprising- 
valley  of  the  Lehigh,  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania.  Young 
LILLY  was  then  but  seventeen  years  old.  From  that  time 
until  the  day  of  his  death  there  have  been  few  people  in  the 


46     Address  of  Mr.  Cameron,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

State  whose  lives  have  been  more  remarkable  than  that  of 
General  LILLY.  His  career  emphatically  demonstrates  the 
fact  that  a  young  man,  no  matter  how  poor  he  may  be,  who 
has  indomitable  will,  pluck,  and  energy,  can  surmount  the 
most  obstinate  and  difficult  barriers  in  his  path  through  life. 
In  no  other  country  on  the  face  of  the  globe  is  this  so  possi- 
ble and  so  marked  as  in  our  own. 

General  LILLY'S  career  in  that  regard  is  a  striking  illus- 
tration and  one  worthy  of  emulation.  He  entered  the  serv- 
ice of  the  Beaver  Meadow  Railroad  Company  as  their  coal- 
shipping  agent  at  Penn  Haven,  which  was  then  at  the  head 
of  the  Lehigh  Canal.  He  became  a  conductor  on  that  road, 
and  by  energy,  hard  work,  and  good  business  habits  he  very 
soon  tilled  a  place  of 'trust  in  the  administrative  department 
of  the  road.  His  life  thenceforth  was  one  of  active  business 
enterprise.  He  soon  entered  into  coal-mining  operations  in 
the  anthracite  region  of  the  State,  and  he  increased  his 
business  from  time  to  time,  so  that,  at  his  death,  he  was  a 
member  of  the  coal-mining  firms  of  Lentz,  Lilly  &  Co.,  and  L. 
A.  Reilly  &  Co.,  in  Schuylkill,  and  of  the  firm  of  George  B. 
Markle  &  Co,,  at  Jeddo,  Luzerne  County.  He  was  a  director 
in  the  East  Broad  Top  Railroad  Company,  in  the  Highland 
Coal  Company,  in  the  Union  Improvement  Company,  and  in 
the  Andover  Iron  Company. 

In  his  own  county  of  Carbon,  he  was  president  of  the  Lehigh 
Emery  Wheel  Company  and  the  Carbon  Metallic  Paint  Com- 
pany. He  was  a  director  in  the  First  and  Second  National 
Banks  of  Mauch  Chunk,  and  also  held  a  seat  in  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Shenandoah.  He  was 
one  of  the  board  of  commissioners  to  locate  and  build  a  State 
hospital  for  injured  persons  in  the  anthracite  coal  region.  This 
institution,  called  the  Miners'  Hospital,  is  situated  near  Ash- 
land, Schuylkill  County,  and  was  turned  over  to  the  trustees 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  47 

in  1884.  He  was  one  of  the  original  trustees,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  was,  and  had  been  for  some  years,  the  president 
of  the  board.  This  institution,  it  is  needless  to  say,  had  in 
him  a  warm,  faithful,  and  devoted  friend.  He  was  a  life  mem- 
ber of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences  of  Philadelphia,  and 
also  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  being  treasurer  of  the  latter,  and  was  likewise  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  American  Mining  Engineers. 

During  the  war  he  was  a  great  friend  of  the  Union  soldiers, 
and  supported  a  number  of  the  families  of  his  workmen  who 
had  volunteered.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity  for  more  than  half  a  century  and  held  the  position 
of  Grand  Master  of  Pennsylvania. 

However,  all  these  numerous  business  connections  and  occu- 
pations did  not  prevent  General  LILLY  from  becoming  a  close 
student  of  social  and  political  affairs,  for  which  he  evinced  a 
taste  in  early  manhood.  At  that  time  he  affiliated  with  the 
Democratic  party.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  legislature  of 
1850  and  1851  before  he  was  thirty  years  of  age,  taking  such 
an  active  and  leading  part  in  the  first  session  that  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  second  session  he  became  a  prominent  candi- 
date for  speaker  of  the  house,  but  was  defeated  by  a  few  votes. 
Urgent  business  demands  compelled  him  to  decline  a  reelec- 
tion to  that  body. 

Although  the  valley  in  which  he  lived  was  strongly  Demo- 
cratic, he  joined  the  fortunes  of  the  Eepublican  party  in  the 
autumn  of  1862^  and  at  once  became  what  was  termed  an 
ardent  Union  man  and  a  prominent  figure  in  the  politics  of 
the  State,  and  ever  afterwards  he  rendered  valuable  and  effi- 
cient services  to  that  party. 

It  is  related  that  while  on  a  visit  to  Washington  in  1862, 
General  LILLY  met  some  of  the  leading  Democrats  of  the 
country  and  became  very  much  dissatisfied  with  their  views 


48     Address  of  Mr.  Cameron,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  the 

on  the  war.  Visiting  the  House  of  Representatives,  lie  found 
fifty-five  Democratic  Congressmen  voting  against  a  war  meas- 
ure of  vital  import  to  the  National  Government.  Finding  on 
personal  conversation  with  many  of  them  that  they  were  in 
sympathy  with  the  South,  he  said  to  a  Democratic  member' 
from  Pennsylvania:  "I  don't  care  about  breaking  personal 
friendship,  but  I  have  come  to  bid  you  a  political  good-bye." 
''What's  the  matter?"  asked  his  astonished  friend.  "Well," 
replied  General  LILLY,  "  I  have  made  up  my  mind  never 
again  to  vote  witli  a  party  which  has  failed  to  support  the 
Government  in  its  hour  of  trial  and  need."  And  he  was  true 
to  his  word.  From  that  time  on  he  served  as  a  delegate  at 
every  important  Republican  State  convention  in  tbe  State, 
.  and  was  also  a  delegate  or  alternate  to  every  National  Eepub- 
lican convention  held  in  the  last  twenty-five  years. 

In  1868  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  gubernatorial  nomina- 
tion and  his  name  was  presented  to  the  convention,  receiving 
next  to  the  highest  vote  on  the  last  ballot.  It  was  partly 
through  his  instrumentality  that  the  Pennsylvania  State  con- 
stitutional convention  of  1872-73  was  called,  to  which  he  was 
elected  as  a  delegate  at  large.  At  this  convention,  which  was 
composed  of  some  of  the  most  eminent,  learned,  and  distin- 
guished men  in  the  State,  and  the  sessions  of  which  were  pro- 
longed for  almost  an  entire  year,  he  established  for  himself  a 
splendid  record  and  one  which  will  be  handed  down  in  the 
annals  of  the  Commonwealth  as  equal  to  that  of  any  of  the 
members  of  that  famous  assemblage. 

General  LILLY  was  elected  as  one  of  the  Congressmen  at 
large  from  Pennsylvania  to  the  Fifty-third  Congress,  receiving 
five  hundred  and  twelve  thousand  five  hundred  and  seventy- 
seven  votes,  against  four  hundred  and  forty-eight  thousand 
seven  hundred  and  fourteen  votes  for  his  Democratic  opponent. 

My  departed  colleague  obtained  the  title  of  general  during 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  49 

his  connection  with  tbe  State  militia  in  his  early  youth.  He 
was  a  man  of  fine  and  powerful  physique  and  of  commanding 
appearance,  and  when  but  twenty  years  of  age  was  elected 
colonel  of  one  of  the  militia  regiments  in  his  neighborhood, 
and  was  subsequently  appointed  a  brigadier-general.  It  is 
said  that  he  was  the  youngest  man  upon  whom  the  governor 
of  Pennsylvania  had  ever  conferred  so  high  a  rank. 

General  LILLY  was  in  every  sense  a  true  Pennsylvanian. 
Even  while  a  Democrat  he  was  a  firm,  steadfast  believer  in 
and  exponent  of  the  American  doctrine  of  high  protection. 
It  was  the  dream  and  ambition  of  his  life  to  see  our  people  of 
all  trades  and  classes,  the  miners,  the  mechanics,  the  artisans, 
the  laborers,  elevated  to  the  highest  possible  plane,  and  his 
noble  spirit  rebelled  against  the  idea  of  putting  them  on  a 
level  with  the  poorly  paid  labor  of  Europe.  He  believed  this 
could  only  be  possible  by  the  most  stringent  protective  tariff 
laws.  He  was  very  pronounced  in  his  convictions  in  this 
regard,  and  no  subtle  and  ingenious  argument  could  swerve 
him  in  his  opinions  which  a  lifetime  of  study  and  experience 
had  convinced  him  were  based  upon  correct  principles.  So 
strongly  had  he  proclaimed  himself  the  champion  of  our  home 
industries  that  in  1881  the  New  York  tariff  convention  made 
him  their  chairman,  a  position  which  he  filled  conscientiously 
and  creditably. 

General  LILLY  was  a  true,  faithful,  and  patriotic  friend  of 
the  people,  kind-hearted,  generous  to  a  fault,  and  he  possessed 
a  manly  and  moral  courage  that  is  rarely  equaled.  He  was 
fully  alive  to  the  interests  of  his  State,  and  had  he  been 
spared  to  us  would  have  taken  a  leading  part  in  defending 
them  to  bis  utmost  ability  when  the  body  to  which  he  had 
been  elected  was  engaged  in  rending  asunder  all  her  great 
industries.  He  was  violently  opposed  to  free-trade  heresies. 
He  was  a  man  of  the  people,  with  the  people,  and  for  the 
H  Mis.  216 4 


50  Address  of  Mr.  Palmer,  of  Illinois,  on  the 

people,  and  he  vehemently  denounced  both  publicly  and 
privately  the  false  economic  ethics  and  political  sophistries  of 
those  who  were  constantly  endeavoring  to  tear  down  the 
bulwarks  of  American  institutions  and  opening  wide  the 
gates  of  our  shores  to  foreign  competition.  His  loss,  there- 
fore, at  this  most  important  juncture  of  the  history  of  our 
country  was  not  only  a  severe  blow  to  his  own  immediate 
constituency,  but  it  was  a  great  shock  and  an  irreparable  loss 
to  the  whole  State. 

Mr.  President,  General  LILLY  was  my  warm  personal  friend. 
He  was  a  friend  as  stanch  and  true  as  it  has  been  my  fortune 
to  possess.  He  was  a  man  of  noble  impulses,  and  I  had  the 
highest  regard  and  respect  for  him.  Our  friendship  began  a 
long  time  ago,  and  ripened  as  the  years  rolled  by;  and  I  am 
glad  and  proud  to  say  that  never  for  a  single  moment  was 
that  friendship  in  the  least  degree  strained.  His  life  can  justly 
be  epitomized  in  one  short  sentence:  He  was  honest,  square, 
and  fair  in  his  dealings  with  his  fellow-man;  and  the  people 
of  Pennsylvania  will  revere  his  memory  for  all  time  to  come. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  PALMER,  OF  ILLINOIS. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT  :  It  was  not  my  fortune  to  meet  General 
LILLY  until  his  brief  appearance  in  this  city  as  a  member  of 
the  Fifty-third  Congress,  and  yet  he  was  not  to  me  an  entire 
stranger.  In  18G1 1  was  a  member  of  that  abortion  termed  a 
Peace  Congress.  At  that  convention  I  met  David  Wilmot 
and  other  Pennsylvania  Democrats.  I  had  conferences  with 
them  as  to  their  and  my  own  duty  in  the  then  impending 
crisis,  and  I  then  heard  of  Gen.  WILLIAM  LILLY  as  a  Demo- 
crat, a  Jeffersonian  Democrat,  opposed  to  slavery  as  the  logic 
of  his  political  creed,  devoted  to  the  Union  as  a  necessary  part 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  51 

of  his  inheritance  as  a  Jackson  Democrat.  I  was  told  that  he 
was  earnest,  and  would  be  earnest,  whatever  might  happen  in 
the  future  of  our  common  country.  I  knew  many  of  the 
Democrats  of  Pennsylvania  at  that  time.  I  learned  much  of 
their  patriotic  attachment  to  the  interests  of  the  country,  and 
their  devotion  to  the  Union  of  the  States. 

They  were  States  rights  men,  opposed  to  slavery  upon  prin- 
ciple. They,  however,  recognized  the  Jeffersonian  doctrine  of 
the  rights  of  the  States.  They  regarded  slavery  as  having  its 
foundation  in  force,  and  believed  it  could  only  exist  in  the 
States  when  sanctioned  by  positive  law.  When  the  struggle 
came  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union,  they  were  earnest  in 
their  efforts  and  did  their  whole  duty.  I  will  not  repeat  the 
names  of  many  of  them  who  are  endeared  to  me  by  sacred 
memories.  They  have  passed  away,  and  I  linger  on  this  stage 
of  action. 

General  LILLY  was  born  on  the  3d  of  June,  1821.  He  died 
on  the  1st  day  of  December,  1893.  His  death  was  timely, 
not  untimely.  He  lived  his  threescore  years  and  ten,  and  his 
was  a  life  of  activity  and  usefulness.  We  are  told  also  that 
he  was  descended  from  Eevolutionary  stock.  From  that 
stock  he  inherited  health,  integrity,  courage,  and  those 
nobler  qualities,  resolution  and  self-denial.  In  1838,  with 
his  father,  he  removed  to  a  part  of  Pennsylvania  which  was 
then  comparatively  new,  and  with  that  inheritance,  which  is 
far  more  than  millions,  he  early  saw  the  advantages  which 
surrounded  him,  and  had  the  sagacity  to  control  them.  He 
became  distinguished  for  his  activity  and  his  usefulness,  for 
his  business  sagacity,  for  his  personal  integrity,  and  for  his 
devoted  patriotism. 

Not  much  more  can  be  said,  Mr.  President,  of  any  man. 
Some  men  obtain  loftier  positions  in  the  estimation  of  their 
countrymen  and  of  mankind,  but  the  man  who  wins  the  dis- 


52  Address  of  Mr.  Palmer,  of  Illinois,  on  the 

tinction  I  have  mentioned  has  fulfilled  all  the  just  expecta- 
tions of  those  who  love  him. 

Mr.  President,  I  may  be  permitted  to  say,  having  myself 
lived  even  longer  than  he,  that  we  underrate  the  advantages 
of  the  conditions  that  prevailed  in  the  part  of  Pennsylvania 
in  which  this  man  settled.  Such  conditions  favor  the  devel- 
opment of  individualism.  It  is  one  of  the  evils  of  modern 
social  and  business  life  that  individuality  is  almost  entirely 
lost  in  the  gseat  struggle  in  which  we  are  all  engaged 

I  trust  and  believe  that  there  will  be  at  no  distant  day  such 
an  adjustment  of  conditions  as  will  again  allow  the  develop- 
ment of  strong  individuality.  But  I  may  say  that  the  condi- 
tions which  surround  young  men  or  which  surrounded  young 
men  in  the  new  States  of  the  Union  caused  the  development 
of  personal  characteristics  that  attended  them  through  life, 
and  made  them  strong  in  the  right  direction  or  strong  in  wrong 
directions.  In  the  case  of  General  LILLY,  his  strength,  his 
earnestness,  his  courage,  his  resolution,  his  self-denial  were 
wisely  employed,  and  he  attained  political  distinction  as  well 
as  business  successes. 

It  may  be,  Mr.  President,  that  changes  in  political  connec- 
tions separate  men  who  were  intimately  associated  during  the 
occurrence  of  great  events.  If  it  were  true  that  the  stream  of 
life  flowed  on  steadily  and  quietly,  if  it  was  never  disturbed 
by  rocks  and  rapids,  men  possibly  might  never  learn  to  love 
and  respect  each  other;  but  there  are  days  of  peril  and  hours 
of  trial,  when  men  become  attached  to  each  other  by  ties  that 
are  never  broken.  I  may  refer  for  the  moment  to  the  fact 
that  the  men  who  in  1860,  and  during  the  years  of  our  national 
struggle,  became  attached  to  each  other  by  their  common 
sympathies  and  efforts  in  that  great  cause,  and  who  contrib- 
uted to  the  great,  grand  result  for  which  we  all  hoped  and 
struggled — such  men  never  separate  entirely;  they  never  be- 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  53 

come  altogether  estranged.  They  may  differ;  there  may  be 
grounds  of  personal  and  political  controversy  between  them; 
they  may  pursue  different  directions  and  follow  interests  that 
are  divergent,  but  after  all  there  is  a  tie  that  binds  them 
together  which  is  never  broken. 

The  memory  of  a  man  such  as  General  LILLY  is  described 
to  be  clings  to  me.  I  remember  him,  though  a  stranger,  as  a 
brother,  as  one  whose  sympathies  were  in  the  right  direction, 
as  one  whose  efforts  were  directed  toward  noble  ends,  a  man 
who  loved  his  country,  and  who  had  the  courage  to  take 
ground  for  its  defense,  and  who  did  his  duty  in  the  sphere  in 
which  he  was  no  doubt  most  useful. 

The  men  to  whom  I  refer,  Mr.  President,  are  becoming  fewer 
and  fewer  every  day.  To  many  who  listen  to  me  the  events 
of  1860  to  1865  are  but  traditions.  They  listen  to  them  as  to 
the  twice-told  recollections  of  the  ancients;  they  know  but 
little  about  them.  The  struggles  of  that  period  have  given  us 
beyond  all  question  a  new  .Republic,  a  free  Republic.  Its 
result  was  to  abolish  and  destroy  one  of  the  great  evils  that 
afflicted  the  country  and  perfect  the  Constitution  of  our  com- 
mon country,  which  needed  but  the  improvements  which  were 
the  result  of  the  conflict  that  occurred  in  the  years  to  which  I 
have  adverted. 

The  men  who  took  part  either  in  civil  or  military  life  in  that 
great  struggle  are  passing  away.  Slocum  within  a  few  days. 
Other  names  occur  to  me.  One  by  one  they  pass  away. 
LILLY,  not  the  soldier,  but  the  patriot  in  civil  life,  who 
gave  of  his  substance  for  the  care  and  comfort  and  pro- 
tection of  those  whom  the  soldier  loved  better  than  his  life — 
he  has  gone.  They  go,  and  soon  all  will  be  gone.  The  great 
civil  war  is  to-day  but  a  memory.  Its  actors  are  falling  by 
the  wayside;  they  will  soon  pass  away.  They  have  left  a 
rich  inheritance  to  their  country — a  Union  restored,  liberty 


54  Address  of  Mr.  Call,  of  Florida,  on  the 

and  law  established  forever,  the  flag  the  symbol  of  freedom 
wherever  it  floats,  and  peace  and  order  prevail.  The  duties 
of  Government  are  still  difficult:  but  this  great  struggle  gave 
us  a  Government,  and  those  who  succeed  us  will  110  doubt, 
Mr.  President,  be  equal  to  all  the  requirements  of  the  new 
days  upon  which  we  are  entering. 

I  can  not  deplore  the  death  of  the  aged  man  whom  Provi- 
dence has  permitted  to  pass  his  threescore  years  and  ten. 
Death  is  not  an  enemy  to  such  men.  Such  deaths  are  as 
natural  as  births.  Death  is  but  the  voice  that  calls  such  men 
from  the  life  that  is  to  that  life  which  is  to  come. 

I  am  told  that  this  patriot,  this  aged  and  venerable  citizen, 
was  ready  to  respond  to  the  call  of  the  Master  of  life.  When 
he  heard  his  name,  he  answered,  like  the  soldier  at  roll  call, 
"Here!"  He  died  as  the  wise  man  would  wish  to  die. 

I  am  told  that  his  death  was  such  that  twenty  minutes  was 
the  limit  of  his  life  from  the  time  death  appeared  until  it  took 
its  own.  Such  a  death  may  well  be  envied  by  men  who  are 
prepared  to  meet  the  last,  not  the  dread,  account — no,  not  the 
dread  account;  death  is  no  enemy  to  the  man  who  has  dis- 
charged his  duties  faithfully  as  becomes  a  man,  a  citizen,  and 
a  patriot.  Death  is  the  kind  summons;  it  is  the  voice  of  the 
Almighty:  "Your  work  is  done;  come  up  higher." 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  CALL,  OF  FLORIDA. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  It  is  not  unfitting  that  in  this  great  arena 
of  national  action  those  who  come  from  widely  separated  parts 
of  the  country  should  upon  occasions  when  members  of  either 
of  these  two  bodies  shall  pass  into  another  stage  of  existence 
add  our  tributes  of  respect  to  their  memory,  to  the  end  that 
the  whole  country  and  the  whole  people  shall  appreciate  and 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  55 

respect  the  record  of  those  who  shall  have  done  in  their  place 
and  in  their  time  Something  for  the  preservation  of  the  coun- 
try, something  for  the  continuance  of  those  public  policies 
which  we  believe  will  advance  the  happiness  and  the  welfare 
of  the  great  mass  of  the  people  of  the  world. 

In  that  respect,  in  his  place  and  in  his  time,  the  distin- 
guished Pennsylvania!!,  whose  memory  we  now  celebrate  and 
to  whose  virtues  we  pay  this  tribute  of  respect,  performed  a 
great  part  admirably  and  perfectly.  It  is  not  always  those 
who  are  most  distinguished  and  most  eminent  in  public  life  in 
either  of  these  two  bodies  who  perform  the  most  useful  part. 
The  wise,  the  deliberate,  the  thoughtful  citizen,  intent  upon 
those  practical  measures  which  convey  success  to  our  public 
policies,  contributes  more  than  the  brilliant  orator,  more  even, 
perhaps,  than  the  great  statesman  whose  thoughts  are  intent 
upon  some  special  measure,  some  particular  theory  of  action 
in  respect  of  public  policies. 

Amongst  those  thoughtful,  firm,  stable,  patriotic,  brave,  and 
manly  men,  the  record  which  has  been  presented  of  General 
LILLY  equals  that  of  anyone  I  have  ever  known ;  not  a  distin- 
guished orator,  not  identified  with  any  particular  scheme  or 
public  measure  other  than  those  which  belonged  to  his  party, 
yet  known  as  a  brave,  a  manly,  a  sincere  and  earnest  friend 
of  the  people,  and  a  man  laboring  in  the  convictions  of  an 
honest  and  an  intelligent  judgment. 

Mr.  President,  I  can  not  conceive  of  a  character  more 
worthy  of  respect ;  I  can  not  conceive  of  an  example  that  will 
do  more  to  build  up  that  American  character  upon  which  the 
destinies  of  this  great  Republic  must  rest  than  the  life  and  the 
example  of  such  a  man. 

It  was  the  custom  of  the  Romans,  when  the  body  from 
which  the  spirit  had  departed  to  another  life  was  removed  to 
its  final  resting  place,  to  salute  it  as  it  passed  away  with  the 


56     Address  of  Mr.  Chandler,  of  New  Hampshire,  on  the 

words,  Ave,  awe,  atque  vale,  hail,  hail,  and  farewell,  until  we 
too  shall  quickly  join  thee.  Thus  ended  the  poetic  and  touch- 
ing funeral  ceremony  of  that  extraordinary  people;  but  after 
this  there  was  left  a  record  in  that  great  Republic  of  the  lives 
of  their  public  men,  reserved  and  transmitted  to  us,  and  in 
that  history  the  virtues  which  have  characterized  this  mem- 
ber of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  bear  a  conspicuous 
place.  This  distinguished  Pen  nsy  Ivan  ian's  history  will  go 
down  to  future  generations  with  the  record  of  his  manly  vir- 
tue, of  his  devotion  to  the  public  interests,  of  his  sincere 
patriotism.  His  life  still  remains  to  enlighten  the  world  and 
encourage  the  citizens  of  this  Republic  to  emulate  his 
example. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  CHANDLER,  OF  NEW  HAMPSHIRE. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  The  present  Congress  has  been  called  upon 
to  mourn  for  an  unusual  number  of  its  members.  Senators 
and  Representatives  have  seen  so  many  seats  draped  in  black, 
and  have  started  so  often  at  the  mind's  vision  of  the  familiar 
forms  so  lately  present  but  forever  gone  from  mortal  sight, 
that  the  session  has  seemed  almost  a  continuous  ceremonial 
in  memory  and  honor  of  our  departed  associates. 

Our  own  number  on  this  floor  was  lessened  by  the  deaths  of 
three  respected  and  beloved  companions — the  wise  and  benev- 
olent Stanford;  the  patient  and  devout  Colquitt;  the  genial 
and  eloquent  Vance. 

Six  Representatives  have  passed  away:  Two  from  Ohio, 
Messrs.  Houk  and  Enochs;  one  from  Michigan,  Mr.  Ohipman ; 
three  from  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Mutch ler,  whose  son  succeeds 
him;  the  lovable  veteran  in  faithful  and  patriotic  service, 
Charles  O'Neill,  and  he  whom  we  now  lament. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  57 

Among  all  these  whose  deaths  have  afflicted  the  Fifty-third 
Congress  there  was  no  finer  specimen  of  American  manhood, 
no  nobler  product  of  American  institutions,  no  truer  type  of 
American  citizenship  than  Gen.  WILLIAM  LILLY.  In  his 
long  life  of  seventy- two  years  his  varied  experiences  formed 
the  strong  character  which  leads  those  who  have  studied  it  to 
speak  in  no  stinted  words  their  commendation  and  eulogy. 

His  recollection  of  the  virtues  of  his  Eevolutionary  fathers; 
the  simplicity  of  his  early  surroundings;  his  own  hard  and 
unremitting  toil  in  the  Lehigh  Valley  when  its  sturdy  settlers 
began  to  tear  the  mineral  wealth  from  its  coal  mines  and  send 
to  an  ever- widening  market  this  marvelous  product  so  bounti- 
fully created  by  nature's  wonderful  chemistry  during  ages 
long  gone  by;  the  slow  accumulation  of  wealth  by  patient  and 
honest  processes;  all  these  developed  in  WILLIAM  LILLY  a 
manhood  accompanied  by  few  faults  and  by  no  vanities,  self- 
reliant  and  powerful,  bringing  him  to  the  front  rank  in  the 
community  where  his  lot  was  cast.  Labors  of  usefulness  and 
honor  were  crowded  upon  him ;  in  coal  enterprises,  in  manu- 
facturing companies,  in  banks  and  other  financial  institutions, 
where  his  participation,  counsel,  and  assistance  were  always 
eagerly  sought;  in  societies  for  the  development  of  science, 
both  theoretical  and  applied,  and  in  organizations  benevolent 
and  Masonic,  where  his  membership  and  services  were  ever 
welcome  and  ever  cheerfully,  helpfully,  and  earnestly  given — 
until  at  the  last  he  attained,  in  full  age,  the  completest  develop- 
ment of  the  greatest  number  of  human  faculties  which  can  be 
reached  outside  of  public  life  in  this  or  any  country. 

General  LILLY  did  not  not  seek  public  employment;  and 
only  with  reluctance  in  his  youth  consented  to  become  for  two 
terms  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  legislature,  in  1868  al- 
lowed his  name  to  be  considered  in  connection  with  the  nomi- 
nation for  governor,  and  in  1873  attended  as  a  delegate  a 


58     Address  of  Mr.  Chandler,  of  New  Hampshire,  on  the 

constituti oiial  convention.  The  pressure  of  his  business  pur- 
suits and  their  kindred  occupations  most  fully  engrossed  the 
attention  of  his  long,  laborious,  and  useful  life,  and  he  resisted 
all  temptations  to  give  them  up.  The  war  for  the  Union 
aroused  his  earnest  sympathies,  and  caused  him  to  change  his 
political  affiliations,  and  to  give  his  influence  at  all  times  and 
in  the  fullest  possible  measure  to  the  party  whose  principles 
he  espoused  in  the  greatest  national  emergency  of  the  century 
in  which  he  lived. 

With  this  grand  old  man  before  them,  full  of  years  and 
private  honors,  but  never  having  sought  or  willingly  accepted 
public  position,  it  was  natural  that  in  1892  the  people  of  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania,  looking  for  candidates  for  Congress- 
men at  large,  should  select  to  represent  them  in  the  Fifty- 
third  Congress  such  a  man  as  General  LILLY.  He  did  not 
need  the  suffrages  of  his  fellow-citizens,  but  was  content 
to  live  and  die  in  his  successful  and  honorable  career  in 
private  life.  But  they  needed  him;  they  wished  to  honor 
one  who  had  done  so  much  to  increase  the  prosperity  of  his 
neighborhood  and  his  State  and  to  illustrate  the  high  char- 
acter of  Pennsylvania  citizenship;  and  so  they  called  upon 
him,  he  yielded  to  their  demands,  gave  strength  and  popu- 
larity to  the  ticket  upon  which  he  was  placed,  and  was 
chosen  by  sixty-four  thousand  majority. 

It  was  a  movement  that  was  creditable  to  the  greut  Com- 
monwealth; it  was  an  honor  well  deserved  by  General  LILLY; 
but  it  is  possible,  so  some  may  think,  that  at  his  age  it  was  a 
mistaken  demonstration.  He  took  his  seat  at  the  special 
session  in  August,  1893;  but  his  health  was  already  infirm, 
he  soon  left  for  his  home  on  leave  of  absence,  and  on  the  1st 
day  of  December,  tfhile  heroically  preparing  to  come  again  to 
Washington,  he  was  stricken  down  and  passed  away  from 
earth. 


Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly.  59 

He  had  begun  his  career,  as  a  boy,  in  Pennsylvania  in  1838, 
with  unfaltering  strivings  to  achieve  success  by  hard  labor 
and  untiring  effort.  The  determined  spirit  of  his  youth  had 
not  failed  him  when,  in  November,  1893,  he  rose  to  perform 
the  duties  he  had  undertaken  as  a  Eepresentative  in  Congress. 
But,  alas!  although  the  spirit  was  willing  the  flesh  was  weak; 
his  mortal  powers  were  unequal  to  the  task  he  felt  bound  to 
perform ;  and  so  there  went  from  earth  to  Heaven  one  of  the 
best  and  noblest*  of  our  kind. 

Mr.  President,  I  feel  that  1  can  not  too  often  assert  my 
hope  and  belief  in  the  existence  of  a  future  life.  In  the  mad 
rush  and  hurry  of  human  endeavor,  becoming  each  year  in 
this  era  and  in  this  American  world  more  and  more  fierce, 
with  all  the  modern  appliances  derived  from  growing  wealth 
and  marvelous  inventions  to  incite  us,  there  is  the  utmost 
danger  of  increased  materialism  leading  on  to  prevalent  skep- 
ticism. On  such  solemn  occasions  as  this  we  must  renew  our 
faith.  We  know  little  of  what  we  are.  We  know  nothing  of 
what  we  shall  be.  But  we  do  know  that  we  are  now  in  exist- 
ence, and  we  do  not  believe  that  we  shall  be  annihilated  when 
life  in  this  world  is  extinguished.  No  such  mockery  of  human 
aspiration  is  possible.  The  mind  will  not  conceive  or  admit 
the  possibility  of  the  cruelty  which  is  involved  in  limiting 
human  existence  to  this  present  state  of  being. 

Either  we  do  not  now  exist  (and  the  consciousness  of  every- 
one assures  him  that  such  an  assertion  is  false),  or  we  shall 
live  on  to  endless  ages  with  the  soul  of  God  himself.  Those 
who  have  left  us  have  put  off,  God  be  thanked,  the  burdens  of 
human  care  and  trouble  and  suffering;  but  they  are  not 
dead ;  they  walk  in  gardens  of  perpetual  delight,  by  streams 
of  endless  beauty  and  brightness;  they  will  not  come  back  to 
us,  but  we  shall  go  to  them,  and  in  their  renewed  presence 
enjoy  the  boundless  felicity  which,  according  to  the  blessings 


60  Life  and  Character  of  William  Lilly. 

of  the  divine  scheme  of  universal  salvation,  comes  to  all  the 
creatures  to  whom  God  in  His  infinite  wisdom  and  power  and 
mercy  has  ever  gi^en  a  conscious  existence. 

Mr.  CAMERON.  Mr.  President,  I  submit  for  adoption  the 
resolution  which  I  .send  to  the  desk. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER  (Mr.  Hale  in  the  chair).  The 
resolution  submitted  by  the  Senator  from  Pennsylvania  will 
be  read. 

The  Secretary  read  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
deceased,  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER.  The  question  is  on  the  adoption 
of  the  resolution. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  agreed  to,  and  (at  three 
o'clock  and  forty-three  minutes  p.  m.)  the  Senate  adjourned 
until  Monday,  April  30,  1894,  at  eleven  o'clock  a.  in. 


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